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    The PaleoceneEocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene...
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  • the Paleocene and killed off 75% of species, most famously the non-avian dinosaurs. The end of the epoch was marked by the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum...
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    house to the cold house. The beginning of the Eocene is marked by the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum, a short period of intense warming and ocean acidification...
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  • and atmosphere. The most extreme and best-studied event, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM or ETM-1), occurred about 1.8 million years before ETM-2...
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    consists of the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. The end of the Paleocene (56 Mya) was marked by the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum, one of the...
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  • Thermal Maximum may refer to: Cretaceous Thermal Maximum PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, also...
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    extinction event and the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum. The PaleoceneEocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly...
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    was warmer than today, particularly during the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum. However, the Eocene to Oligocene transition and the Quaternary glaciation...
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    Event 2 (OAE-2). Cretaceous Global warming Greenhouse gas PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum Little Ice Age Medieval Warm Period Polar forests of the Cretaceous...
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    when the rocks were being deposited. Since at least 1997, the PaleoceneEocene thermal maximum (PETM) has been investigated as an analogy for understanding...
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    Ypresian (redirect from Early Eocene)
    is consistent with the Lower Eocene. The Ypresian Age begins during the throes of the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The Fur Formation in Denmark...
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    excursions in temperature during the Paleogene: the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Human populations near the poles, including...
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  • The Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), also referred to as the Early Eocene Thermal Maximum (EETM), was a period of extremely warm greenhouse climatic...
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    studies. The most dramatic example of sustained warming is the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum, which was associated with one of the smaller mass extinctions...
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    the Bighorn Basin contain a well-documented record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Analysis of paleosols here shows that the Bighorn Basin...
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    Azolla event (category Eocene events)
    reverse the planet from the "greenhouse Earth" state of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when the planet was hot enough for turtles and palm trees...
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    events like the Younger Dryas, and the rapid warming during the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum. Studies of past changes in the environment and biodiversity...
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  • Thanetian (redirect from Late Paleocene)
    a strong negative anomaly in δ13C values at the global thermal maximum at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. The Thanetian Stage is coeval the lower Neustrian...
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    Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Heinrich events and possibly also the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum. The term is also used within the context of climate change...
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  • changes in temperature or climate (as occurred during the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum ~55 million years ago); evidence of tapping geothermal power...
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    events. The most notable example of ocean acidification is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred approximately 56 million years ago when...
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  • waters of the tropical North Pacific actually rose during the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum, is presented by Moretti et al. (2024), who argue that this...
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    (creating a carbon sink and forming coal) termination of the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago by flourishing marine phytoplankton reversal...
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    production in the US during 2011 was 5.5 million tons. During the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum sediments deposited in the Esplugafreda area of Spain were...
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  • Niño-Southern Oscillation. A theory was suggested for the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum on the sudden decrease of the carbon isotopic composition of...
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    C. Fricke and S. P. Zack (2012) "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin...
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    Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. pp. 227–243. Wortman, Jacob L. (1894). "Osteology of Patriofelis, a Middle Eocene Creodont"...
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    Ice age (redirect from Glacial maximum)
    highest overall temperatures. One suggested explanation of the PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum is that undersea volcanoes released methane from clathrates...
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  • hdl:1874/385781. S2CID 128810469. "Research on Paleocene-Eocene Mammals and the PETM or Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". University of Michigan. 2009. Retrieved...
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  • hundred thousand years. The most pronounced of these, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is visible in the figure at right. These are usually...
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