“…Each of these localities exhibits rhythmic sedimentation indicating orbital scale forcing and permitting millennial-scale time resolution (Gale et al, 2002;Meyers et al, 2001Meyers et al, , 2005Kolonic et al, 2005;Kuhnt et al, 1997Kuhnt et al, , 2004Sageman et al, 2006). Among these three localities, the Tarfaya C-T sequences exposed along the Atlantic coast of southwestern Morocco accumulated exceptionally high rates of black shale (up to 12 cm/ky, Kuhnt et al, 1997Kuhnt et al, , 2004 and burying an estimated w2% of the overall global excess of organic carbon associated with the OAE2 (Kolonic et al, 2005).…”