Cycles of humid-dry climate conditions around the P/E boundary: New stable isotope data from terrestrial organic matter in Vasterival section (NW France)

Storme, Jean-Yves; Dupuis, C.; Schnyder, J.; Quesnel, F.; Garel, S.; Iakovleva, A. I.; Iacumin, P.; Di Matteo, A.; Sebilo, M.; Yans, J.

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Cycles of humid-dry climate conditions around the P/E boundary: New stable isotope data from terrestrial organic matter in Vasterival section (NW France)

Storme, Jean-Yves; Dupuis, C.; Schnyder, J. et al.

2012 • In Terra Nova, 24 (2), p. 114-122

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[en] The Palaeocene/Eocene boundary (P/EB) and the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55.8Ma) are defined stratigraphically based on carbon isotope ratios of various materials. Here, the position of the P/EB is refined in the terrestrial-lacustrine and swampy Vasterival section (Upper Normandy coast, France) by using carbon isotopes measured on dispersed organic matter (δ 13C org). Moreover, nitrogen isotopes on dispersed organic matter (δ 15N org) are, for the first time in the Palaeogene record, associated with carbon isotope and lithological data to constrain palaeoclimatic and environmental changes around the P/EB in a terrestrial environment. Humid-dry fluctuations before and during this key interval in Earth history are suggested. © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Storme, Jean-Yves ; Université de Liège - ULiège

Dupuis, C.; UMons, Faculté Polytechnique, GFA, rue de Houdain 9, 7000 Mons, Belgium

Schnyder, J.; Université Paris 06, UMR 7072 ISTEP, UPMC-CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Quesnel, F.; BRGM, GEO/G2R, BP 36009, 45060 Orléans Cedex 2, France

Garel, S.; Université Paris 06, UMR 7072 ISTEP, UPMC-CNRS, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France, BRGM, GEO/G2R, BP 36009, 45060 Orléans Cedex 2, France, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO), Orléans University, UMR 6113, 1A rue de la Férollerie, 45072 Orléans, France

Iakovleva, A. I.; Geological Institute, RAS, Pizhevsky pereulok 7, 109017 Moscow, Russian Federation

Iacumin, P.; Earth Sciences, Parma University, Viale G.P. Usberti 157/A, 43100 Parma, Italy

Di Matteo, A.; Earth Sciences, Parma University, Viale G.P. Usberti 157/A, 43100 Parma, Italy

Sebilo, M.; Université Paris 06, UMR 7618 BIOEMCO, UPMC, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Yans, J.; Department of Geology, FUNDP, University of Namur, rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium

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Cycles of humid-dry climate conditions around the P/E boundary: New stable isotope data from terrestrial organic matter in Vasterival section (NW France)

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2012

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Terra Nova

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0954-4879

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114-122

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