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Martino Giorgioni1,2, Luigi Jovane3, Eric S Rego3,4

  • 1Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-120, Brazil. gmartino@unb.br.

Scientific Reports
|June 29, 2019
PubMed
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The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was a global warming event with a unique, variable carbon isotope signature. New stable isotope data suggest MECO triggered significant oceanographic changes, potentially linked to orbital cycles.

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