Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

By J. Zachos, U. Röhl, S. Schellenberg, A. Sluijs, D. Hodell, D. Kelly, Ellen Thomas, M. Nicolo, I. Raffi, L. Lourens and 2 more. Science, 2005

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Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera (2018, background): “2003) and high CO2 levels led to oceanic acidification (Zachos et al., 2005).”
The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification (2011, background): “(B) % CaCO3 drops to zero at the onset of the event in the South Atlantic [dark green, ODP 1263, (24)] but shows little change on Shatsky Rise in the equatorial Pacific [light green, ODP 1209, (93)], indicating neutralization of acidic seawater along the deep-water flow path (28).”
Predation in the marine fossil record: Studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior (2019, background): “Although current anthropogenic OA is the focus of most studies, the occurrence of acidification events in the geologic past is well established (D'Hondt et al., 1994; Hönisch et al., 2012; Zachos et al., 2005).”
Astronomical calibration of the Paleocene time (2008, background): “2), the ELPE event, and the PETM are most likely the effect of carbonate dissolution (Bralower et al., 2002b; Petrizzo, 2005; Zachos et al., 2005; Bralower et al., 2006).”
Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1 (2010, background): “Warming was triggered by the injection of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from widely debated sources perhaps including the disassociation of methane hydrates from continental slope sediments (Katz et al., 1999; Zachos et al., 2003, 2005; Panchuk et al., 2008).”
Possible effects of ocean acidification on coral reef biogeochemistry: topics for research (2008, background): “…of carbonates is positively correlated to Ω; this pervading principle has been central to biological and chemical production, distribution and dissolution of carbonates in the oceans (Feely et al. 2004, Zachos et al. 2005), as well as tropical coastal seas (Broecker et al. 2001, Morse et al. 2003).”
Orbital pacing of methane hydrate destabilization during the Palaeogene (2011, background): “and linked to massive perturbations of the global carbon cycl”
Ocean Acidification and Its Potential Effects on Marine Ecosystems (2008, background): “The PETM likely caused a mass extinction of benthic foraminifera (Zachos et al. 2005).”
Beyond methane: Towards a theory for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (2006, background): “Second, observations of a N2 km rise in the depth of the CCD during the PETM in the South Atlantic argue for a much larger carbon input than can be explained by the methane hydrate hypothesis [4].”
An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics (2008, background): “This includes a rapid and pronounced decrease in the 13 C/ 12 C ratio of carbonate and organic carbon across the globe (that is, a negative carbon isotope excursion) and a prominent drop in the carbonate content of marine sediment deposited at several thousands of metres water depth (that is, a dee”
Predicting the impact of ocean acidification on benthic biodiversity: What can animal physiology tell us? (2008, background): “Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology seawater pH, there is agreement that during this period the oceans did become more acidic and saline with increased periods of anoxia (Zachos et al., 2005).”