| Global Burp
Gassed Ancient Earth
Scientists are
tracking down the source of a carbon-rich gas attack 55 million years
ago.
References:
Norris, R.D.,
and U. Röhl. 1999. Carbon cycling and chronology of climate warming
during the Palaeocene/Eocene transition. Nature 401(Oct.
21):775.
Further Readings:
Bains, S., R.M.
Corfield, and R.D. Norris. 1999. Mechanisms of climate warming at the
end of the Paleocene. Science 285(July 30):724.
Dickens, G.R.
1999. The blast in the past. Nature 401(Oct. 21):752.
Sources:
James P. Kennett
University of California, Santa Barbara
Marine Science Institute
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Richard D.
Norris
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mailstop Code 23
Woods Hole, MA 02540-1541
Ursula Röhl
Universität Bremen
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen
Germany
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 17, October 23, 1999, p. 260. Copyright © 1999,
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