Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1741-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1741-2019
Research article
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16 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2019

Paleoenvironmental response of midlatitudinal wetlands to Paleocene–early Eocene climate change (Schöningen lignite deposits, Germany)

Katharina Methner, Olaf Lenz, Walter Riegel, Volker Wilde, and Andreas Mulch

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We describe the presence of a carbon isotope excursion (CIE) in Paleogene lignites (Schöningen, DE) and assess paleoenvironmental changes in midlatitudinal late Paleocene–early Eocene peat mire records along the paleo-North Sea coast (Schöningen, Cobham, Vasterival). These records share major characteristics of a reduced CIE (~ -1.3 ‰) in terms of bulk organic matter, increased fire activity (pre-CIE), minor plant species changes, and drowning of near-coastal mires during the CIE.