Baltica from the late Precambrian to mid-Palaeozoic times: the gain and loss of a terrane's identity

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The old terrane of Baltica occupies the mass of northern Europe eastwards to the Urals and
lies mostly to the north of the Trans-European Suture Zone. The core, the East European …

Ordovician and Silurian sea–water chemistry, sea level, and climate: a synopsis

A Munnecke, M Calner, DAT Harper… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
Following the Cambrian Explosion and the appearance in the fossil record of most animal
phyla associated with a range of new body plans, the Ordovician and Silurian periods …

The great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): the palaeoecological dimension

T Servais, AW Owen, DAT Harper, B Kröger… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
The 'Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'(GOBE) saw a spectacular increase in marine
biodiversity at all taxonomic levels largely within the phyla established much earlier during …

Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician–Silurian continental reconstructions

RA Fortey, LRM Cocks - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
The discreteness or otherwise of major Ordovician and Silurian terranes can be recognised
by the shallow-water benthic faunas which lived upon them. Their borders are often …

Middle and Upper Ordovician carbon isotope chemostratigraphy in Baltoscandia: a correlation standard and clues to environmental history

L Ainsaar, D Kaljo, T Martma, T Meidla… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Baltoscandian epeiric sea was characterised by relatively slow but continuous
carbonate deposition from the Middle Ordovician up to the Silurian. Relatively good …

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

B Schmitz, KA Farley, S Goderis, PR Heck… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt 466 million years (Ma) ago
still delivers almost a third of all meteorites falling on Earth. Our new extraterrestrial chromite …

A revised correlation of Ordovician rocks in the British Isles

RA Fortey - 2000 - books.google.com
&Quot; This Report is revised and expanded from the 1972 publication, providing an up-to-
the-minute account of the British Ordovician formations and their correlation nationally and …

Climate changes in the pre-Hirnantian Late Ordovician based on δ18Ophos studies from Estonia

P Männik, O Lehnert, J Nolvak… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Results of conodont-based δ 18 O phos studies from two core sections in Estonia
(Mehikoorma-421 and Valga-10) indicate that the pre-Hirnantian Late Ordovician was …

Katian (Upper Ordovician) δ13C chemostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the United States and Baltoscandia: a regional comparison

SM Bergström, S Young, B Schmitz - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
δ13C values of numerous limestone samples from Katian (Upper Ordovician) successions in
Oklahoma and the Upper Mississippi Valley document the presence of at least three of the …

Ordovician and Silurian ichnofossils from carbonate facies in Estonia: a collection-based review

U Toom, O Vinn, O Hints - Palaeoworld, 2019 - Elsevier
Trace fossils are common in the Ordovician and Silurian shallow marine carbonate
succession of Estonia, with 45 ichnofossil genera and five bioclaustration structures …