The Eurasian epicontinental sea was an important carbon sink during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum

2022-05-01
Kaya, Mustafa Y.
Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
Frieling, Joost
Fioroni, Chiara
Rohrmann, Alexander
Altıner, Sevinç
Vardar, Ezgi
Tanyas, Hakan
Mamtimin, Mehmut
Zhaojie, Guo
The Eurasian Epicontinental Sea sequestered 720-1300 Gt of organic carbon during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, according to a palaeogeographic reconstruction and multi-proxy data from a sedimentary sequence in the Tarim Basin, China.
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Citation Formats
M. Y. Kaya et al., “The Eurasian epicontinental sea was an important carbon sink during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum,” COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99074.