An atlas of Phanerozoic paleogeographic maps: the seas come in and the seas go out

CR Scotese - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Paleogeography is the study of the changing surface of Earth through time. Driven by plate
tectonics, the configuration of the continents and ocean basins has been in constant flux …

Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic

M Rogov, V Ershova, C Gaina, O Vereshchagin… - Earth-Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Ikaite is a metastable calcium carbonate hexahydrate (CaCO3· 6H2O), which naturally
occurs in environments characterized by temperatures of− 2 to+ 7° C. It is therefore …

A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, DJ Lunt, IP Montañez, BT Huber… - science, 2024‏ - science.org
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into
the dynamical limits of Earth's climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and …

Ocean temperatures through the Phanerozoic reassessed

EL Grossman, MM Joachimski - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

A Great late Ediacaran ice age

R Wang, B Shen, X Lang, B Wen… - National Science …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The emergence of the Ediacara biota soon after the Gaskiers glaciation ca. 580 million years
ago (Ma) implies a possible glacial fuse for the evolution of animals. However, the timing of …

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

O Hagen, A Skeels, RE Onstein, W Jetz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Acceleration of phosphorus weathering under warm climates

L Guo, S ** paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies
L Burgener, E Hyland, BJ Reich, C Scotese - Palaeogeography …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 Ma) was a prolonged warmhouse to hothouse
period characterized by high atmospheric CO 2 conditions, elevated surface temperatures …