We hypothesize that the rapid onset of the carbon isotope excursion (CIE) at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (V55 Ma) may have resulted from the accretion of a significant amount of 12C-enriched carbon from the impact of a V10 km comet, an event that would also trigger greenhouse warming leading to the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum and, possibly, thermal dissociation of seafloor methane hydrat...

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is a remarkable climatic and environmental event that occurred 56 Ma ago and has importance for understanding possible future climate change. The Paleocene-Eocene transition is marked by a rapid temperature rise contemporaneous with a large negative carbon isotope excursion (CIE). Both the temperature and the isotopic excursion are well-documented by ...

The Paleogene evolution of the NW margin African Plate (Western External Rif Zone) was studied by means multidisciplinary analyses twenty-one stratigraphic logs, including tectofacies recognition, petro-mineralogical results, and thicknesses analysis. Four intervals were recognized separated three unconformities coarsely aligned with Cretaceous–Paleogene, Eocene–Oligocene Oligocene–Miocene boun...

Soil organisms, as recorded by trace fossils in paleosols of the Willwood Formation, Wyoming, show significant body-size reductions and increased abundances during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Paleobotanical, paleopedologic, and oxygen isotope studies indicate high temperatures during the PETM and sharp declines in precipitation compared with late Paleocene estimates. Insect and...

Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy reveals a continuous depositional record through the Upper Cretaceous‒Paleocene succession in Zagros Basin; southwest Iran (southeastern part of Neo-Tethys), especially Cretaceous‒Paleogene and Danian‒Selandian boundaries. The upper Gurpi Formation lower Pabdeh were investigated. assemblages from these formations are characterized by abundant, diverse mode...

Abstract The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) contact interval is constrained by vertebrate fossil sites at seven in the Tornillo Group and lies within an 80–100-m stratigraphic section between top of Javelina Formation base “log jam sandstone” marker bed Black Peaks Formation. In western exposures this interval, highest occurrence situ dinosaur specimens lowest Paleocene mammal are separated unusua...