Fifty-five million years ago the Earth suddenly got much hotter. Events are recorded in a ‘spike’ in the carbon-isotope record, for which a provocative new explanation has been proposed.
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Weissert, H., Bernasconi, S. An Earth on fire. Nature 428, 130–131 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/428130a
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