[HTML][HTML] On the ages of flood basalt events

VE Courtillot, PR Renne - Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 2003‏ - Elsevier
We review available data constraining the extent, volume, age and duration of all major
Phanerozoic continental flood basalts (CFB or traps) and oceanic plateaus (OP), together …

Astrochronostratigraphic polarity time scale (APTS) for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic from continental sediments and correlation with standard marine stages

DV Kent, PE Olsen, G Muttoni - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Paleomagnetic and cycle stratigraphic analyses of nearly 7000 m of section from continuous
cores in the Newark basin and an overlap** 2500 meter-thick composite outcrop and core …

Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage

RBJ Benson, NE Campione, MT Carrano… - PLoS …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant
vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, rapid rates of morphological …

Earth's impact events through geologic time: a list of recommended ages for terrestrial impact structures and deposits

M Schmieder, DA Kring - Astrobiology, 2020‏ - liebertpub.com
This article presents a current (as of September 2019) list of recommended ages for proven
terrestrial impact structures (n= 200) and deposits (n= 46) sourced from the primary …

[كتاب][B] Physics of the Earth

FD Stacey, PM Davis - 2008‏ - books.google.com
The fourth edition of Physics of the Earth maintains the original philosophy of this classic
graduate textbook on fundamental solid earth geophysics, while being completely revised …

Mercury evidence for pulsed volcanism during the end-Triassic mass extinction

LME Percival, M Ruhl, SP Hesselbo… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) has long been proposed as having a
causal relationship with the end-Triassic extinction event (∼ 201.5 Ma). In North America …

[كتاب][B] Into the cool: Energy flow, thermodynamics, and life

ED Schneider, D Sagan - 2005‏ - books.google.com
Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we
are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in …

Origination, extinction, and mass depletions of marine diversity

RK Bambach, AH Knoll, SC Wang - Paleobiology, 2004‏ - cambridge.org
In post-Cambrian time, five events-the end-Ordovician, end-Frasnian in the Late Devonian,
end-Permian, end-Triassic, and end-Cretaceous-are commonly grouped as the “big five” …

Calcareous nannoplankton evolution and diversity through time

PR Bown, JA Lees, JR Young - … : from molecular processes to global impact, 2004‏ - Springer
Planktic microfossils arguably provide the most complete (stratigraphic and taxonomic)
record of biodiversity of any group of organisms. The phytoplankton record is of particular …

Superiority, competition, and opportunism in the evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs

SL Brusatte, MJ Benton, M Ruta, GT Lloyd - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
The rise and diversification of the dinosaurs in the Late Triassic, from 230 to 200 million
years ago, is a classic example of an evolutionary radiation with supposed competitive …