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Paleoceanography | 1994

Evolution of early Cenozoic marine temperatures

James C. Zachos; Lowell D. Stott; Kyger C. Lohmann

The equator to high southern latitude sea surface and vertical temperature gradients are reconstructed from oxygen isotope values of planktonic and benthic foraminifers for the following five time intervals: late Paleocene, early Eocene, early middle Eocene, late Eocene, and early Oligocene. Paleotemperatures are calculated using standard oxygen isotope/temperature equations with adjustments to account for (1) variations in sea water δ18O related to changes in global ice volume over time and (2) latitudinal gradients in surface water δ18O. These reconstructions indicate that sea-surface temperatures (SST) of the Southern Oceans in the early Eocene were as high as 15°C, whereas temperatures during the late Paleocene and early middle Eocene reached maximum levels of 10°–12°C. By the late Eocene and early Oligocene high latitude SST had declined to 6 and 4°C, respectively. For most of the early Paleogene, low latitude sub-tropical temperatures remained constant and well within the range of Holocene temperatures (24°ndash;25°C) but by the late Eocene and early Oligocene declined to values in the range of 18° to 22°C. The late Paleogene apparent decline in tropical temperatures, however, might be artificial because of dissolution of near-surface foraminifera tests which biased sediment assemblages toward deeper-dwelling foraminifera. Moreover, according to recent plate reconstructions, it appears that the majority of sites upon which the late Eocene and early Oligocene tropical temperatures were previously established were located either in or near regions likely to have been influenced by upwelling. Global deepwater temperature on average paralleled southern ocean SST for most of the Paleogene. We speculate based on the overall timing and character of marine sea surface temperature variation during the Paleogene that some combination of both higher levels of greenhouse gases and increased heat transport was responsible for the exceptional high-latitude warmth of the early Eocene.


Archive | 1988

Geochemical Patterns of Meteoric Diagenetic Systems and Their Application to Studies of Paleokarst

Kyger C. Lohmann

The isotopic and cation chemistry of meteoric waters changes in response to the effects of rock—water interaction, uptake of organically derived CO2, and primary mineralogic differences among carbonate terranes. Moreover, variations in the dominance of these factors produce diverse chemical conditions within the meteoric systems which allow the sub- environments of vadose-phreatic, mixed-water, and spelean diagenesis to be distinguished. Therefore, geochemical patterns within the meteoric water system are examined to provide criteria for recognition of these subenvironments of meteoric diagenesis in ancient carbonate sequences.


The Journal of Geology | 1993

Abrupt climate change and transient climates during the Paleogene: a marine perspective

James C. Zachos; Kyger C. Lohmann; James C. G. Walker; Sherwood W. Wise

Detailed investigations of high latitude sequences recently collected by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) indicate that periods of rapid climate change often culminated in brief transient climates, with more extreme conditions than subsequent long term climates. Two examples of such events have been identified in the Paleogene; the first in latest Paleocene time in the middle of a warming trend that began several million years earlier: the second in earliest Oligocene time near the end of a Middle Eocene to Late Oligocene global cooling trend. Superimposed on the earlier event was a sudden and extreme warming of both high latitude sea surface and deep ocean waters. Imbedded in the latter transition was an abrupt decline in high latitude temperatures and the brief appearance of a full size continental ice-sheet on Antarctica. In both cases the climate extremes were not stable, lasting for less than a few hundred thousand years, indicating a temporary or transient climate state. Geochemical and sedimentological evidence suggest that both Paleogene climate events were accompanied by reorganizations in ocean circulation, and major perturbations in marine productivity and the global carbon cycle. The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum was marked by reduced oceanic turnover and decreases in global


Paleoceanography | 2000

Incorporation and preservation of Mg in Globigerinoides sacculifer: implications for reconstructing the temperature and 18O/16O of seawater

Yair Rosenthal; G. P. Lohmann; Kyger C. Lohmann; R. M. Sherrell


Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 1999

Controls on the stable isotope composition of seasonal growth bands in aragonitic fresh-water bivalves (unionidae)

David L. Dettman; Aimee K. Reische; Kyger C. Lohmann

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 1996

SrCa and 13C12C ratios in skeletal calcite of Mytilus trossulus: Covariation with metabolic rate, salinity, and carbon isotopic composition of seawater

Robert T. Klein; Kyger C. Lohmann; Charles W. Thayer


Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 1992

Sr/Mg ratios of modern marine calcite: Empirical indicators of ocean chemistry and precipitation rate

Scott J. Carpenter; Kyger C. Lohmann

and in marine productivity, while the Early Oligocene glacial maximum was accompanied by intensification of deep ocean circulation and elevated


Geology | 1996

Bivalve skeletons record sea-surface temperature and δ18O via Mg/Ca and 18O/16O ratios

Robert T. Klein; Kyger C. Lohmann; Charles W. Thayer


Nature | 2000

Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary.

Linda C. Ivany; William P. Patterson; Kyger C. Lohmann

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995

δ18O and δ13C values of modern brachiopod shells

Scott J. Carpenter; Kyger C. Lohmann

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