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Price, Gregory D., Bajnai, David ORCID: 0000-0002-4053-5056 and Fiebig, Jens (2020). Carbonate clumped isotope evidence for latitudinal seawater temperature gradients and the oxygen isotope composition of Early Cretaceous seas. Paleogeogr. Paleoclimatol. Paleoecol., 552. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1872-616X

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated Early Cretaceous (Valanginian, ca. 135 million years ago) climate from subtropical to boreal palaeolatitudes. Combined carbonate clumped isotope and oxygen isotope data derived from subarctic, boreal, and sub-tropical fossil belemnite rostra (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) provide new palaeotemperature estimates as well as a constraint on the oxygen isotope composition of seawater. Our belemnite data reveal balmy high-latitude marine temperatures (ca. 22 degrees C) and warm sub-tropical temperatures (ca. 31 degrees C). Supplementing our clumped isotope-based temperature estimates with published TEX 86 data results in a conservative reconstruction of a latitudinal temperature gradient that is reduced compared to modern conditions. We find that modelling efforts are close to reproducing tropical temperatures when high pCO(2) levels are considered. Warm polar temperatures imply, however, that data-model discrepancies remain. Early Cretaceous seawater oxygen isotope values show a modern profile and are much more positive (up to 1.5 parts per thousand SMOW) than typically assumed. Based on our findings, if the positive Cretaceous seawater delta O-18 values are not considered, carbonate delta O-1(8) thermometry would underestimate temperatures, most acute at middle and tropical latitudes.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Price, Gregory D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bajnai, David UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4053-5056 UNSPECIFIED Fiebig, Jens UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-323273
DOI:	10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109777
Journal or Publication Title:	Paleogeogr. Paleoclimatol. Paleoecol.
Volume:	552
Date:	2020
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1872-616X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOUTHERN HIGH-LATITUDES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STABLE-ISOTOPE; ICE-VOLUME; POLAR ICE; CLIMATE; DELTA-O-18; EVOLUTION; PALEOTEMPERATURES; CALIBRATION Multiple languages Geography, Physical; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Paleontology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/32327