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CLIMATE OF THE PAST
卷 14, 期 7, 页码 1035-1049出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/cp-14-1035-2018
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- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
- Laia Alegret project (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) [CGL2014-58794-P]
- Laia Alegret project (FEDER funds) [CGL2014-58794-P]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- NERC [nigl010001, NE/P013112/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The response of the Earth system to greenhouse-gas-driven warming is of critical importance for the future trajectory of our planetary environment. Hyperthermal events - past climate transients with global-scale warming significantly above background climate variability - can provide insights into the nature and magnitude of these responses. The largest hyperthermal of the Cenozoic was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM similar to 56 Ma). Here we present new high-resolution bulk sediment stable isotope and major element data for the classic PETM section at Zumaia,Spain. With these data we provide a new detailed stratigraphic correlation to other key deep-ocean and terrestrial PETM reference sections. With this new correlation and age model we are able to demonstrate that detrital sediment accumulation rates within the Zumaia continental margin section increased more than 4-fold during the PETM, representing a radical change in regional hydrology that drove dramatic increases in terrestrial-to-marine sediment flux. Most remarkable is that detrital accumulation rates remain high throughout the body of the PETM, and even reach peak val-ues during the recovery phase of the characteristic PETM carbon isotope excursion (CIE). Using a series of Earth system model inversions, driven by the new Zumaia carbon isotope record, we demonstrate that the silicate weathering feedback alone is insufficient to recover the PETM CIE, and that active organic carbon burial is required to match the observed dynamics of the CIE. Further, we demonstrate that the period of maximum organic carbon sequestration coincides with the peak in detrital accumulation rates observed at Zumaia. Based on these results, we hypothesise that orbitalscale variations in subtropical hydro-climates, and their subsequent impact on sediment dynamics, may contribute to the rapid climate and CIE recovery from peak-PETM conditions.
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