Ordovician and Silurian sea–water chemistry, sea level, and climate: a synopsis

A Munnecke, M Calner, DAT Harper… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
Following the Cambrian Explosion and the appearance in the fossil record of most animal
phyla associated with a range of new body plans, the Ordovician and Silurian periods …

Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician–early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes

MJ Melchin, CE Mitchell, C Holmden, P Štorch - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Ordovician (Katian-Hirnantian) through earliest Silurian (Rhuddanian)
interval was a time of varying climate and sea level, marked by a peak glacial episode in the …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

B Schmitz, KA Farley, S Goderis, PR Heck… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt 466 million years (Ma) ago
still delivers almost a third of all meteorites falling on Earth. Our new extraterrestrial chromite …

Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

E Nardin, Y Goddéris, Y Donnadieu, GL Hir… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The early Paleozoic climate has been described as warm and equable. However, recent
data based on conodont oxygen isotopic composition reveal a large, long, cooling trend …

The Bohemo‐Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana

JC Gutiérrez‐Marco, AA Sá, DC García‐Bellido… - Lethaia, 2017 - idunn.no
The Bohemo‐Iberian regional scale for South Gondwana, involving the 'Mediterranean
Province', comprises five regional stages (Arenigian, Oretanian, Dobrotivian, Berounian and …

Sea-level curve for the Middle to early Late Ordovician in the Armorican Massif (western France): Icehouse third-order glacio-eustatic cycles

MP Dabard, A Loi, F Paris, JF Ghienne, M Pistis… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
This contribution deals with the Middle to early Late Ordovician of the Armorican Massif
(western France). The aim is to reconstruct a multi-order eustatic curve from the stratigraphic …

Geochronology and geochemistry of Ordovician felsic volcanism in the Southern Armorican Massif (Variscan belt, France): Implications for the breakup of Gondwana

M Ballevre, S Fourcade, R Capdevila, JJ Peucat… - Gondwana …, 2012 - Elsevier
Low-grade, porphyritic felsic metavolcanics make up a significant volume of the South
Armorican domain (Variscan belt, France). Their age and geochemistry are the first focus of …

The Ordovician record of North and West Africa: unravelling sea-level variations, Gondwana tectonics, and the glacial impact

JF Ghienne, H Abdallah, R Deschamps, M Guiraud… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ordovician of North and West Africa comprises three main transgressive–
regressive sequences understood as 'second-order'cycles of 10–15 myr duration. Tide-to …

Fractures distribution and basement-cover interaction in a polytectonic domain: A case study from the Saghro Massif (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

Y Hejja, L Baidder, H Ibouh, AN Bba… - Journal of African Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract From the Neoproterozoic to Cenozoic, different extensional and transpressional
tectonics events occurred during the Pan-African, Variscan and Alpine orogenic cycles in the …