Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Current understanding on the Cambrian Explosion: questions and answers

X Zhang, D Shu - PalZ, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body
plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change of generic diversity, body size …

Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era

GY Wei, M Zhao, EA Sperling, RR Gaines… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
The evolution of oxygen cycles on Earth's surface has been regulated by the balance
between molecular oxygen production and consumption. The Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic …

Oxygen isotope ensemble reveals Earth's seawater, temperature, and carbon cycle history

T Isson, S Rauzi - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Earth's persistent habitability since the Archean remains poorly understood. Using an
oxygen isotope ensemble approach—comprising shale, iron oxide, carbonate, silica, and …

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 …

Orbitally-paced climate change in the early Cambrian and its implications for the history of the Solar System

T Zhang, Y Li, T Fan, AC Da Silva, J Shi, Q Gao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The early Cambrian was a critical period of Earth history, marked by explosive diversification
of metazoans and several profound changes in Earth's surface environments and global …

Life on the edge: The Cambrian marine realm and oxygenation

SB Pruss, BC Gill - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The beginning of the Phanerozoic saw two biological events that set the stage for all life that
was to come:(a) the Cambrian Explosion (the appearance of most marine invertebrate …

Pre-Cenozoic cyclostratigraphy and palaeoclimate responses to astronomical forcing

D De Vleeschouwer, LME Percival… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Astronomical insolation forcing is well established as the underlying metronome of
Quaternary ice ages and Cenozoic climate changes. Yet its effects on earlier eras …

Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: The early Cambrian Sinsk event

PM Myrow, JW Goodge, GA Brock, MJ Betts… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
The Cambrian explosion, one of the most consequential biological revolutions in Earth
history, occurred in two phases separated by the Sinsk event, the first major extinction of the …

What controls the duration and intensity of ocean anoxic events in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic?

T Reershemius, NJ Planavsky - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The sedimentological and geochemical expression of Mesozoic ocean anoxic events
(OAEs) in the geologic record is reasonably well-characterized and the causal mechanisms …