Jiang S, Wise S W. Surface-water chemistry and fertility variations in the tropical Atlantic across the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum as evidenced by calcareous nannoplankton from ODP Leg 207, Hole 1259B. Revue de Micropaleontologie;2006; 49:227-244.

Self-Trail J M, PowarsDS, Watkins D K,Wandless GA. Calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from a shelf setting. Marine Micropaleontology;2012;92-93:61–80.

Murphy B H, Farley K A,Zachos J C. An extraterrestrial 3He-based timescale for the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) from Walvis Ridge, IODP Site 1266. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta;2010; 74:5098-5108.

Kroon D, Zachos J C, Blum P. (2004). Proc.OceanDrill. Program, Initial Rep., vol. 208. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 208.

Vandenberghe N, Hilgen F J, Speijer R P.The Paleogene Period, in The Geological Time Scale 2012. China,Elsevier; 2012.855-921.

Raffi I, Backman J, Palike H. Changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages across the Paleocene/Eocene transition from the paleo-equatorial Pacific Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology;2005;226:93-126.

Zachos J C, RöhlU, SchellenbergS A, SluijsA, HodellD A, KellyD C, ThomasE, NicoloM, RaffiI, LourensL J, McCarren H, Kroon D. Rapid acidification of the ocean during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum. Science;2005; 308:1611-1615.

Khozyem H, AdatteT, SpangenbergJ E, Tantawy A A,Keller G. Palaeoenvironmental and climatic changes during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at the Wadi Nukhul Section, Sinai, Egypt. Journal of the Geological Society, London;2013;170:341-352.

ThomasE. Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep-sea: What disturbs the largest habitat on Earth? in Large Ecosystem Perturbations: Causes and Consequences. Geological Society of America special paper;2007;424:1-24.

Gingerich P D. Environment and evolution through the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Trends in Ecology & Evolution; 2006;21:246–253.

Falkowski P G, KatzM E, MilliganA J, FennelK, CramerB S, AubryM P, BernerR A, Novacek M J,Zapol W M. The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals. Science;2005;309:2202-2204.

Jones B M, Iglesias-RodriguezM D, SkippPJ, EdwardsR J, GreavesM J, YoungJ R, Elderfield H, O’Connor C D. Responses of the Emiliania huxleyi Proteome to Ocean Acidification. PLOS ONE;2013;8(4).

Gibbs S J, PoultonA J, BownP R, DanielsC J, HopkinsJ, YoungJ R, JonesH L, ThiemannG J, O’Dea S A, Newsam C. Species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene–Eocene environmental change. Nature Geoscience;2013;1-5.

Speijer R P, ScheibnerC, Stassen P, Morsi A M. Response of marine ecosystems to deep-time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences;2012;105(1):6-16.

Bown P R,Young J R. Techniques In Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy.London: British Micropalaeontol Soc, Chapman and Hall;1998.16-28.

Perch-Nielsen K. Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils In Plankton Stratigraphy. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press;1985. 427–554.

Sadler P M. Constrained Optimization approaches to the paleobiologic correlation and seriation problems: Part one a user’s guide to the CONOP program family. Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521;1998-2006.

Martini E. Standard Tertiary and Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton zonation In Proceedings of the Second Planktonic Conference, Roma, 1970. Edizioni Tecnoscienza, Rome;1971;2:739–785.

Raffi I, BackmanJ, Zachos J C, Sluijs A. The response of calcareous nannofossil assemblages to the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum at the Walvis Ridge in the South Atlantic. Marine Micropaleontology;2009;70:201–12.

Schellnhuber, H J, HareW, SerdecznyO, AdamsS, SchaefferM, ScheweJ, Wang X, Warzawski L. Turn Down the Heat: Wh a 4˚C Warmer World must be Avoided. The World Bank, Washington DC;2012;p.106.

Bijma J, Pörtner H-O, Yesson C, Rogers A D. Climate change and the oceans – What does the future hold?. Marine Pollution Bulletin; 2013; in press.

Winguth A M E. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Feedbacks Between Climate Change and Biogeochemical Cycles. In Climate Change-Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects.InTech.;2011;43-64.

Crutzen P. The Anthropocene. Journal de Physique;2002;12:1-5.

Zeebe R E. History of seawater carbonate chemistry, atmospheric CO2, and ocean acidification. Annual Reveiw Earth Planetary Science;2012;40:141-165.

Zeebe R E, Ridgwell A. Past changes of ocean carbonate chemistry. In Ocean acidification, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press;2011. 21–40.

Solomon S, PlattnerG K, Knutti R, Friedlingstein P. Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA;2009;106:1704-1709.