Drilling disturbance and constraints on the onset of the Paleocene–Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion in New Jersey

Pearson, P. N.; Thomas, E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-95-2015

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-95-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-95-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

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16 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 16 Jan 2015

Drilling disturbance and constraints on the onset of the Paleocene–Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion in New Jersey

P. N. Pearson and E. Thomas

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RC C1561: 'Drilling disturbance and primary climatic signals', James Eldrett, 24 Sep 2014
SC C1880: 'On placating silliness', Gerald Dickens, 09 Nov 2014
RC C1886: 'Drilling disturbance and the PETM', Stephen J. Gallagher, 10 Nov 2014
AC C1946: 'Response to reviewers' comments', Paul Pearson, 18 Nov 2014
EC C1999: 'Editor comment', Yves Godderis, 26 Nov 2014

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2014) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (09 Dec 2014) by Yves Godderis

Short summary

The Paleocene-to-Eocene thermal maximum was a period of extreme global warming caused by perturbation to the global carbon cycle 56Mya. Evidence from marine sediment cores has been used to suggest that the onset of the event was very rapid, over just 11 years of annually resolved sedimentation. However, we argue that the supposed annual layers are an artifact caused by drilling disturbance, and that the microfossil content of the cores shows the onset took in the order of thousands of years.