The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 million years ago was triggered by the sudden release of carbon to the ocean–atmosphere system. The carbon may have been removed almost as abruptly 100,000 years later, in the form of organic carbon.
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Archer, D. How it went down last time. Nature Geosci 3, 819–820 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1031
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