Azolla event
id:
azolla-event-254-8438202
title:
Azolla event
text:
The Azolla event is a paleoclimatology scenario hypothesized to have occurred in the middle Eocene epoch, around 49 million years ago, when blooms of the carbon-fixing freshwater fern Azolla are thought to have happened in the Arctic Ocean. As the fern died and sank to the stagnant sea floor, they were incorporated into the sediment over a period of about 800,000 years; the resulting draw-down of carbon dioxide has been speculated to have helped reverse the planet from the "greenhouse Earth" sta
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Hypothetical geoclimatic event
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-13T10:01:54Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q794001","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794001"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Azolla_filiculoides_MUN.jpg","width":2048,"height":1536}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15