PP023
Mesozoic & Early Cenozoic Greenhouse Climates: Extreme Analogs for Future Global Change
Mesozoic & Early Cenozoic Greenhouse Climates: Extreme Analogs for Future Global Change
Session ID#: 81506
Session Description:
Anthropogenic activities have driven the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide above 410 ppm. As pCO2 continues on this trajectory, deep-time paleoclimate work will become more relevant to near future climate. The greenhouse climates of the Mesozoic and Paleogene represent end-member analogs for a future warm Earth. Understanding changes and interactions between the climate, ocean, and biosphere during these intervals is important for contextualizing the consequences of anthropogenic climate change. We invite abstracts that present stratigraphic, geochemical, ecological, and paleoceanographic records of greenhouse climates, including temperature reconstruction, water column structure, ocean circulation, weathering, sea-level rise, oceanic anoxic events, hyperthermals and other carbon cycle perturbations, and ecological change and evolutionary turnover across marine and terrestrial depositional environments. Because the societal relevance of such deep-time work is currently undervalued, we encourage authors to highlight how their findings about past warm climate can be used to inform what may happen in the future.
Index Terms:
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4901 Abrupt/rapid climate change [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4912 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
4948 Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Convener: Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Conveners: Raquel Bryant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Lauren O'Connor, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom and Joyeeta Bhattacharya, Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison: Rosie L Oakes, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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