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Deep-Sea Stratigraphy: Cenozoic Climate Steps and the Search for Chemo-Climatic Feedback

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Cyclic and Event Stratification

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Results of paleoceanographic studies on cores recovered by Glomar Challenger suggest that the evolution of ocean circulation and climate is not gradual but is punctuated by periods of rapid change, or “steps”. These events may or may not be associated with the classical stratigraphic boundaries, some apparently are.

There appear to be two extreme types of events: (1) those which represent accelerations of a given trend, depending on positive feedback from hydrosphere and perhaps carbon sphere and (2) those which are independent of a trend and depend entirely on outside forcing. Steps opposing the overall trend, but following on-trend steps, also exist. They are interpreted as rebound events.

The step-like transitions from one geochemical-climatologic setting to another are important as natural experiments, for the study of response characteristics of the system, and for global high resolution stratigraphy.

Il nous restait ensuite à nous assurer positivement si ces différents terrains, ces différents étages, si tranchés sur le sol de la France, étaient le résultat des circonstances locales, spéciales à notre sol, ou s’ils dépendaient de faits généraux qui se seraient produits sur tous les points du globe à la fois.

M.A. d’Orbigny (1851)

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Berger, W.H. (1982). Deep-Sea Stratigraphy: Cenozoic Climate Steps and the Search for Chemo-Climatic Feedback. In: Einsele, G., Seilacher, A. (eds) Cyclic and Event Stratification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75829-4_10

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