The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts

Stable isotopic response to late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts
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Published:April 01, 2009
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Aimee E Pusz, Kenneth G Miller, James D Wright, Miriam E Katz, Benjamin S Cramer, Dennis V Kent, 2009. "Stable isotopic response to late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts", The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari
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We evaluated the age of two Upper Eocene impact ejecta layers (North American microtektites linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure and clinopyroxene [cpx] spherules from the Popigai crater) and the global effects of the associated impact events. The reported occurrence of cpx spherules from the Popigai impact structure at South Atlantic ODP Site 1090 within the middle of magnetochron C16n.1n yields a magnetochronologic age of 35.4 Ma. We generated high-resolution stable isotope records at Sites 1090, 612 (New Jersey slope), and Caribbean core RC9-58 that show: (1) a 0.5‰ δ13C decrease in bulk-carbonate at Site 1090 coincident...
- Anomalinidae
- Asia
- Atlantic Ocean
- C-13/C-12
- carbon
- Cassidulinacea
- Cenozoic
- chemostratigraphy
- Chesapeake Bay impact structure
- Cibicidoides
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Deep Sea Drilling Project
- DSDP Site 612
- ejecta
- Eocene
- Foraminifera
- impacts
- Invertebrata
- IPOD
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- Leg 95
- Leg 177
- marine environment
- microfossils
- North Atlantic
- O-18/O-16
- Ocean Drilling Program
- ODP Site 1090
- oxygen
- paleoenvironment
- Paleogene
- Popigay Structure
- Protista
- Rotaliina
- Russian Federation
- South Atlantic
- stable isotopes
- Tertiary
- upper Eocene