financially supported in part by funds from the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (GBL215010);National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2012CB822002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41302008, 41172037);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (53200859490);Science and Technology Innovation Fund of the China University of Geoscience (Beijing);the Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (YETP0665)
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum(PETM) event was a dramatic global warming w55.93 Ma ago that resulted in biological extinction events, lithological changes, and major deviations in σ13 C and σ18 O.The southwest...