The hothouse climate of the early Eocene epoch was punctuated by a series of transient warming events linked to massive carbon release. Detailed terrestrial records for three of these events indicate that they were caused by similar underlying mechanisms.
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Secord, R. Hot spells on land. Nature Geosci 5, 306–307 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1457
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