Synchronizing early Eocene deep-sea and continental records – cyclostratigraphic age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project drill cores

Westerhold, Thomas; Röhl, Ursula; Wilkens, Roy H.; Gingerich, Philip D.; Clyde, William C.; Wing, Scott L.; Bowen, Gabriel J.; Kraus, Mary J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-303-2018

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-303-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-303-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

Research article

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08 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 08 Mar 2018

Synchronizing early Eocene deep-sea and continental records – cyclostratigraphic age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project drill cores

Thomas Westerhold, Ursula Röhl, Roy H. Wilkens, Philip D. Gingerich, William C. Clyde, Scott L. Wing, Gabriel J. Bowen, and Mary J. Kraus

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-303-2018-supplement

Data sets

Tables and supplementary data S1 to S9 for cyclostratigraphic age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project drill cores Thomas Westerhold, Ursula Röhl, Roy H. Wilkens, Philip D. Gingerich, William C. Clyde, Scott L. Wing, Gabriel J. Bowen, and Mary J. Kraus https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875685

Short summary

Here we present a high-resolution timescale synchronization of continental and marine deposits for one of the most pronounced global warming events, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, which occurred 56 million years ago. New high-resolution age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) drill cores help to improve age models for climate records from deep-sea drill cores and for the first time point to a concurrent major change in marine and terrestrial biota 54.25 million years ago.