Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt

RD Müller, B Mather, A Dutkiewicz, T Keller, A Merdith… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Concealed deep beneath the oceans is a carbon conveyor belt, propelled by plate tectonics.
Our understanding of its modern functioning is underpinned by direct observations, but its …

[HTML][HTML] Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

Global warming in the pipeline

JE Hansen, M Sato, L Simons… - Oxford Open Climate …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney
(fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2±0.3° C (2σ) per W/m2, which is 4.8° C±1.2° …

[LIBRO][B] Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures

M Sheldrake - 2021 - books.google.com
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• A “brilliant [and] entrancing”(The Guardian) journey into
the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and …

Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons

M Tang, WQ Ji, X Chu, A Wu, C Chen - Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A new data compilation shows that in intermediate to felsic rocks, zircon Eu/Eu*[chondrite
normalized Eu/] correlates with whole rock La/Yb, which has been be used to infer crustal …

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

GL Foster, DL Royer, DJ Lunt - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The evolution of Earth's climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in
the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

COPSE reloaded: an improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

TM Lenton, SJ Daines, BJW Mills - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'COPSE'(Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Evolution)
biogeochemical model predicts the coupled histories and controls on atmospheric O 2, CO 2 …

Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

A Farnsworth, YTE Lo, PJ Valdes, JR Buzan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammals have dominated Earth for approximately 55 Myr thanks to their adaptations and
resilience to warming and cooling during the Cenozoic. All life will eventually perish in a …