The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts

Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes: Evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy)
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Published:April 01, 2009
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Rodolfo Coccioni, Fabrizio Frontalini, Silvia Spezzaferri, 2009. "Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes: Evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy)", The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts, Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari
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The Eocene-Oligocene transition marks the passage from “greenhouse” conditions to an “icehouse state” with progressive global cooling starting in the early middle Eocene. The late Eocene is also characterized by a high concentration of extraterrestrial impacts, the effects of which, on living organisms and climatic changes, are still not understood. We carried out a high-resolution investigation on planktonic foraminiferal assemblages in an 8-m-thick segment of the Massignano global stratotype section and point for the Eocene-Oligocene boundary with the aim of assessing the effects that the impacts may have had on the environment and this group of organisms. The studied interval...
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- Asia
- assemblages
- biostratigraphy
- Cenozoic
- Chesapeake Bay impact structure
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Eocene
- Europe
- Foraminifera
- impacts
- Invertebrata
- Italy
- lithostratigraphy
- Marches Italy
- marine environment
- Massignano Italy
- microfossils
- paleoclimatology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleogene
- paleohydrology
- Popigay Structure
- Protista
- quantitative analysis
- Russian Federation
- Southern Europe
- statistical analysis
- stratotypes
- Tertiary
- United States
- upper Eocene