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Nature Research, Nature Geoscience, 3(2), p. 156-159, 2009

DOI: 10.1038/ngeo454

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Kick-starting ancient warming

Journal article published in 2009 by E. G. Nisbet, S. M. Jones, J. Maclennan, G. Eagles ORCID, J. Moed, N. Warwick, Slimane Bekki, P. Braesicke, J. A. Pyle, C. M. R. Fowler
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Abstract

The warm period known as the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a period of climatic turmoil that lasted more than 100,000 years. Ocean temperatures increased by 3–10 |[deg]|C, and atmospheric concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide rose sharply.