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Climate Response to Orbital Forcing During The Eocene Deglaciated, High Temperature, High CO2 State: New Records From Sites 1210, 1258 & 1267

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

We work all around the world to understand how Earth's climate system works naturally. We use this to predict the ways in which it will respond to human-driven change in the future.

Research outputs

Symbiont 'bleaching' in planktic foraminifera during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum
K.M. Edgar,
S.M. Bohaty,
S.J. Gibbs,
P.F. Sexton,
R.D. Norris,
& P.A. Wilson
, 2013 , Geology , 41 (1) , 15--18
DOI: 10.1130/G33388.1
Type: article
Testing the impact of diagenesis on the δ18O and δ13C of benthic foraminiferal calcite from a sediment burial depth transect in the equatorial Pacific
Kirsty M. Edgar,
Heiko Pälike,
& Paul Wilson
, 2013 , Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology , 28 (3) , 468--480
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20045
Type: article
Short-term warming events in the boreal Albian (mid-Cretaceous)
Jochen Erbacher,
Oliver Friedrich,
Paul Wilson,
Jens Lehmann,
& Wolfgang Weiss
, 2011 , Geology , 39 (3) , 223--226
DOI: 10.1130/G31606.1
Type: article
Sea-level and salinity fluctuations during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum in Arctic Spitsbergen
Ian C. Harding,
Adam J. Charles,
John E.A. Marshall,
Heiko Pälike,
Andrew P. Roberts,
Paul A. Wilson,
Edward Jarvis,
Robert Thorne,
Emily Morris,
Rebecca Moremon,
Richard B. Pearce,
& Shir Akbari
, 2011 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 303 (1-2) , 97--107
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.043
Type: article
Eocene global warming events driven by ventilation of oceanic dissolved organic carbon
P.F. Sexton,
R.D. Norris,
P.A. Wilson,
H. Pälike,
T. Westerhold,
U. Röhl,
Clara T. Bolton,
& S.J. Gibbs
, 2011 , Nature , 471 (7338) , 349--353
DOI: 10.1038/nature09826
Type: article