The life cycle of large igneous provinces

BA Black, L Karlstrom, TA Mather - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely voluminous magmatic systems known as large igneous provinces (LIPs)
punctuate Earth's history, and the gases they release plausibly link large-scale geodynamic …

An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook, RE Merle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the products of exceptional magmatic events that played
important roles in tectonic plate reorganizations, environmental crises, energy resource …

Continental flood basalts drive Phanerozoic extinctions

T Green, PR Renne, CB Keller - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Refinements of the geological timescale driven by the increasing precision and accuracy of
radiometric dating have revealed an apparent correlation between large igneous provinces …

Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas

S Callegaro, DR Baker, PR Renne, L Melluso… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Two events share the stage as main drivers of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction—
Deccan Traps volcanism, and an asteroid impact recorded by the Chicxulub crater. We …

Earth system changes during the cooling greenhouse phase of the Late Cretaceous: Coniacian-Santonian OAE3 subevents and fundamental variations in organic …

A Mansour, M Wagreich - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coniacian-Santonian (CS) was a time of differentiation in marine
sedimentation, characterized by organic carbon (OC)-rich black shales and carbonates …

A Bayesian inversion for emissions and export productivity across the end-Cretaceous boundary

AA Cox, CB Keller - Science, 2023 - science.org
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by both the Chicxulub impact and the
ongoing emplacement of the Deccan Traps flood basalt province. To understand the …

Early Jurassic large igneous province carbon emissions constrained by sedimentary mercury

IM Fendley, J Frieling, TA Mather, M Ruhl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large igneous province eruptions and their carbon emissions often coincide with, and are
hypothesized to have driven, severe environmental perturbations in the geological past …

Cycles of~ 32.5 My and~ 26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over …

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, S Rodriguez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential temporal and causal connections among various geologic events have long been
discussed in the geological literature. More recently, signs of common periodicities in these …

Volume and rate of volcanic CO2 emissions governed the severity of past environmental crises

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The emplacement of large igneous provinces (LIPs) has been linked to catastrophic mass
extinctions in Earth's history, but some LIPs are only associated with less severe oceanic …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain

V Gilabert, SJ Batenburg, I Arenillas, JA Arz - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Untangling the timing of the environmental effects of Deccan volcanism with respect to the
Chicxulub impact is instrumental to fully assessing the contributions of both to climate …