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Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the upper Eocene to lower Oligocene Yazoo Formation, US Gulf Coast
Marcelo Augusto De Lira Mota
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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Guy Harrington
PetroStrat, Conwy Office, Tan-y-Graig, Parc Caer Seion, Conwy, LL32
8FA, UK
Tom Dunkley Jones
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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Short summary
New high-resolution microfossil record from a clay succession in the US Gulf Coastal Plain reveal more accurate age estimates for the critical Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT), a global climate event marked by the rapid expansion of the first permanent Antarctic ice sheet 34 million years ago. These data suggest a coeval major increase in sedimentation rate. Future isotopic and palaeoecological work on this core can be more precisely integrated with other global records of the EOT.
New high-resolution microfossil record from a clay succession in the US Gulf Coastal Plain...
