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In the studied section, there is cooling event started during the earliest Paleocene P alpha till P1b Subzones. The warming event started at P1c Subzone and continued till P2 Zone. Nevertheless, during the late Paleocene (Zone P3) there is a cooling trend. Zone P4 is characterized by a warming episode and reached its maximum at the latest Paleocene and continued till the earliest Eocene (Subzone P5b), which indicate that the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene was the warmest period of the Cenozoic. It was possible to recognize four sea-level cycles during the Paleocene/Eocene; the first cycle marks the upper part of P3a Zone and represents shallow depth to similar to 50 m; the second cycle (P3b/P4) marks another stratigraphic gap at the top of this zonal boundary, the third sea-level cycle (Zone P5a) marks the greatest paleodepth of similar to 600 m whereas the fourth cycle represents gradual return to middle-shallow outer neritic. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.