Cycles of~ 32.5 My and~ 26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over …

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, S Rodriguez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential temporal and causal connections among various geologic events have long been
discussed in the geological literature. More recently, signs of common periodicities in these …

Long-term periodicity of sedimentary basins in response to astronomical forcing: Review and perspective

R Zhang, Z **, M Li, M Gillman, S Chen, Q Liu… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Periodicity is a fundamental phenomenon occurring throughout the history of our planet
Earth. Investigations into the mechanics of terrestrial cyclicity should consider short-term …

The resonant tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon distance

M Farhat, P Auclair-Desrotour, G Boué… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Due to tidal interactions in the Earth-Moon system, the spin of the Earth slows down and the
Moon drifts away. This recession of the Moon can now be measured with great precision, but …

[HTML][HTML] Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots

P Cermeño, C García-Comas, A Pohl, S Williams… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The fossil record of marine invertebrates has long fuelled the debate as to whether or not
there are limits to global diversity in the sea,,,–. Ecological theory states that, as diversity …

Long‐term Earth‐Moon evolution with high‐level orbit and ocean tide models

H Daher, BK Arbic, JG Williams… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Tides and Earth‐Moon system evolution are coupled over geological time. Tidal
energy dissipation on Earth slows rotation rate, increases obliquity, lunar orbit semi‐major …

Earth's interior dynamics drive marine fossil diversity cycles of tens of millions of years

S Boulila, SE Peters, RD Müller… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The fossil record reveals that biotic diversity has fluctuated quasi-cyclically through
geological time. However, the causal mechanisms of biotic diversity cycles remain …

[HTML][HTML] A pulse of the Earth: A 27.5-Myr underlying cycle in coordinated geological events over the last 260 Myr

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, Y Zhu - Geoscience Frontiers, 2021 - Elsevier
We performed spectral analyses on the ages of 89 well-dated major geological events of the
last 260 Myr from the recent geologic literature. These events include times of marine and …

Map** solar system chaos with the Geological Orrery

PE Olsen, J Laskar, DV Kent… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Geological Orrery is a network of geological records of orbitally paced climate designed
to address the inherent limitations of solutions for planetary orbits beyond 60 million years …

[HTML][HTML] Global Phanerozoic sea levels from paleogeographic flooding maps

CM Marcilly, TH Torsvik, CP Conrad - Gondwana research, 2022 - Elsevier
The validity of sea level estimates based on stratigraphic correlations has been debated
since the 1990 s as relative sea level curves differ between sites due to local tectonics …

[HTML][HTML] Time series analysis of mantle cycles Part I: Periodicities and correlations among seven global isotopic databases

SJ Puetz, KC Condie - Geoscience Frontiers, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, seven isotopic databases are presented and analyzed to identify mantle and
crustal episodes on a global scale by focusing on periodicity ranging from 70 to 200 million …