The annually laminated oil shale from the Eocene maar lake at Messel (Federal State of
Hessen, Germany) provides unique paleoenvironmental data for a time interval of ~640 ka …

Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are increasingly used to
reconstruct mean annual air temperature (MAAT) during the early Paleogene. However, the …

… Author links open overlay panel Olaf K. Lenz a b , Volker Wilde b 1 , Walter Riegel a b 2 … ,
preferring rather wet conditions and mineral substrates (Lenz, 2005). It should be noted that the …

The Palaeogene was the most recent greenhouse period on Earth. Especially for the Late
Palaeocene and Early Eocene, several superimposed short-term hyperthermal events have …

Sphagnum moss is the dominant plant type in modern boreal and (sub)arctic ombrotrophic
bogs and is of particular interest due to its sensitivity to climate and its important role in …

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a globally important factor in today's climate
dynamics. Annually laminated oil shales from the maar lake of Messel (Germany) provide high-…

The open cast mine Schöningen Südfeld (Lower Saxony, northern Germany), exposed a
continuous section of about 170 m which ranges in age from the latest Paleocene to the earliest …

The annually laminated oil shale from the Eocene maar lake at Messel (Germany) provides
unique palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatological information for the Palaeogene …

Based on high-resolution palynological analysis of 680 samples from a core, short-term
changes in plant diversity and floristic composition within the Paleogene greenhouse were …

Tropical climates reached their northernmost expansion during the early Paleogene greenhouse
phase, supporting a paratropical biota as far north as the southern shore of the ancient …