Biomineralization: Integrating mechanism and evolutionary history

PUPA Gilbert, KD Bergmann, N Boekelheide… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) biomineralizing organisms have played major roles in the
history of life and the global carbon cycle during the past 541 Ma. Both marine diversification …

The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP): A review

A Marzoli, S Callegaro, J Dal Corso… - … World: Earth in a time of …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) consists of basic rocks emplaced
as shallow intrusions and erupted in large lava flow fields over a land surface area in excess …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

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 …

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

SD Burgess, JD Muirhead, SA Bowring - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse
and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived …

Zircon U-Pb geochronology links the end-Triassic extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

TJ Blackburn, PE Olsen, SA Bowring, NM McLean… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The end-Triassic extinction is characterized by major losses in both terrestrial and marine
diversity, setting the stage for dinosaurs to dominate Earth for the next 136 million years …

Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis

J Shen, R Yin, TJ Algeo, HH Svensen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The sources of isotopically light carbon released during the end-Triassic mass extinction
remain in debate. Here, we use mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopes from a pelagic …

U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, KM Samperton, MP Eddy, G Keller… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Chicxulub asteroid impact (Mexico) and the eruption of the massive Deccan volcanic
province (India) are two proposed causes of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, which …

[HTML][HTML] End-Triassic mass extinction started by intrusive CAMP activity

JHFL Davies, A Marzoli, H Bertrand, N Youbi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The end-Triassic extinction is one of the Phanerozoic's largest mass extinctions. This
extinction is typically attributed to climate change associated with degassing of basalt flows …

Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions: an update

DPG Bond, PB Wignall, G Keller… - Volcanism, impacts, and …, 2014 - books.google.com
The temporal link between mass extinctions and large igneous provinces is well known.
Here, we examine this link by focusing on the potential climatic effects of large igneous …