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


Kaya M. Y., Dupont-Nivet G., Frieling J., Fioroni C., Rohrmann A., Altiner S., ...More

COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, vol.3, no.1, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

Abstract

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.