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Spatial heterogeneity in carbonate-platform environments and carbon isotope values across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (Tethys Himalaya, South Tibet)

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GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
Volume 214, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103853

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Paleocene-Eocene boundary; Carbon isotope excursion; Larger benthic foraminifera; Carbonate microfacies; Tibetan carbonate platform

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  1. National Natural Science Foun-dation of China [42072117, 41888101, 91755209]
  2. State Key Lab-oratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS [183115]

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This study evaluates the impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on a shallow-water carbonate platform using sedimentological, biostratigraphic, and carbon isotopic data. The results show significant environmental and carbon isotopic response to PETM, with regression and turnover of shallow-water biota.
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM,-56 Ma) is a large negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE) that testifies to a massive perturbation of the global carbon cycle and has been considered to be an ancient, deep-time analogue for present and future climate change. However, the environmental and carbon isotopic response to the PETM in shallow-water carbonate platforms has remained largely elusive. This study presents new sedi-mentological, biostratigraphic, and carbon isotopic data to evaluate the impact of the PETM on a shallow-water carbonate platform from more proximal southern parts of the northern Indian continental margin. Detailed biostratigraphy and carbon isotope data indicate that the PETM occurs 3 m below the boundary between nodular and thin-bedded limestones, is maintained up to the thin-bedded limestone and calcareous marl interval, and is followed by recovery at the base of thick-bedded limestone interval. Microfacies analysis testifies to a regression from open to restricted shallow-marine environments at the transition from PETM onset to PETM core, and shallowing continued through the PETM core. Restricted lagoonal deposition was renewed during PETM re-covery. These environmental changes were associated with two major turnovers of shallow-water biota. We infer that the first sudden biotic change at the PETM onset may relate to intensified continental weathering, whereas the second biotic change at PETM recovery may have been caused by sea-level fall. The smaller magnitude of the CIE observed in proximal, shallower-water than in distal, deeper-water environments is ascribed to increased primary productivity due to increased nutrients' supply associated with intensified continental weathering.

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