ERC Starting Grant · 2018
CO2 reconstruction over the last 100 Myr from novel geological archives
CO2 exerts a major control on Earth’s environment, including ocean acidity and global climate. Human carbon emissions have elevated CO2 levels to above 400 ppm, substantially higher than at any time in the 800,000 year ice core record. If we want to understand how Earth’s environment and climate will respond to a high CO2 world, we need to look deeper into the geological past. This project provides a novel way to reconstruct ocean pH and atmospheric CO2 levels over the last 100 Myr. This will allow us to fathom the fundamental mechanisms governing Earth’s environmental evolution, and improve predictions of environmental response to CO2 change in the future. Atmospheric CO2 and ocean pH are…
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