Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

W Steffen, R Leinfelder, J Zalasiewicz… - Earth's …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stratigraphy provides insights into the evolution and dynamics of the Earth System over its
long history. With recent developments in Earth System science, changes in Earth System …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state–an interdisciplinary review

TW Dahl, SKM Arens - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

[HTML][HTML] On the causes of mass extinctions

DPG Bond, SE Grasby - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

[HTML][HTML] Unconventional petroleum sedimentology: Connotation and prospect

Q Zhen, Z Caineng - 沉积学报, 2020 - cjxb.ac.cn
The theoretical framework of Unconventional Petroleum Geology has been gradually
established along with the rapid progresses in exploration and development of …

Ocean euxinia and climate change “double whammy” drove the Late Ordovician mass extinction

C Zou, Z Qiu, SW Poulton, D Dong, H Wang… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME, ca. 445 Ma) was the first of the “Big
Five” Phanerozoic extinction events and comprised two extinction pulses. Proposed kill …

A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

SL Goldberg, TM Present, S Finnegan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Mercury in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin

J Shen, TJ Algeo, J Chen, NJ Planavsky, Q Feng… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) enrichment in stratigraphic successions is now widely used as a proxy for
volcanic inputs, often for the purpose of documenting a relationship between large igneous …

Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation

DPG Bond, SE Grasby - Geology, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Ordovician saw major diversification in marine life abruptly terminated by the Late
Ordovician mass extinction (LOME). Around 85% of species were eliminated in two pulses 1 …

End Ordovician extinctions: a coincidence of causes

DAT Harper, EU Hammarlund, CMØ Rasmussen - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The end Ordovician (Hirnantian) extinction was the first of the five big Phanerozoic
extinction events, and the first that involved metazoan-based communities. It comprised two …

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the 'Ordovician Revolution': a review

TJ Algeo, PJ Marenco, MR Saltzman - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …