Right at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary a dramatic shift in the ... At the end of the Paleocene, Europe and Greenland were pulling apart and opening the North Atlantic, resulting in massive ...

We would find alligators and giant tortoises on Ellesmere Island, across from the northwest coast of Greenland ... the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). Over the course of 8,000 to 10,000 ...