Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost

Robert M. DeConto (), Simone Galeotti, Mark Pagani, David Tracy, Kevin Schaefer, Tingjun Zhang, David Pollard and David J. Beerling
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Robert M. DeConto: University of Massachusetts
Simone Galeotti: Earth, Life, University of Urbino
Mark Pagani: Yale University
David Tracy: University of Massachusetts
Kevin Schaefer: National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tingjun Zhang: National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
David Pollard: Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
David J. Beerling: University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Nature, 2012, vol. 484, issue 7392, 87-91

Abstract: Orbitally triggered decomposition of soil organic carbon in terrestrial permafrost is suggested as an explanation for a series of sudden and extreme global warming events that occurred about 55 million years ago.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1038/nature10929

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