Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

J Dal Corso, H Song, S Callegaro, D Chu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

L Eme, A Spang, J Lombard, CW Stairs… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the
field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and …

[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 …

Theory and classification of mass extinction causation

TJ Algeo, J Shen - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Theory regarding the causation of mass extinctions is in need of systematization, which is
the focus of this contribution. Every mass extinction has both an ultimate cause, ie the trigger …

Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

JL Penn, C Deutsch, JL Payne, EA Sperling - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Climate change triggered by volcanic greenhouse gases is hypothesized
to have caused the largest mass extinction in Earth's history at the end of the Permian Period …

The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

ZQ Chen, MJ Benton - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
The aftermath of the great end-Permian period mass extinction 252 Myr ago shows how life
can recover from the loss of> 90% species globally. The crisis was triggered by a number of …

Biogeochemical controls and feedbacks on ocean primary production

PG Falkowski, RT Barber, V Smetacek - science, 1998 - science.org
Changes in oceanic primary production, linked to changes in the network of global
biogeochemical cycles, have profoundly influenced the geochemistry of Earth for over 3 …

A Neoproterozoic snowball earth

PF Hoffman, AJ Kaufman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag - science, 1998 - science.org
Negative carbon isotope anomalies in carbonate rocks bracketing Neoproterozoic glacial
deposits in Namibia, combined with estimates of thermal subsidence history, suggest that …

The evolution of modern eukaryotic phytoplankton

PG Falkowski, ME Katz, AH Knoll, A Quigg, JA Raven… - science, 2004 - science.org
The community structure and ecological function of contemporary marine ecosystems are
critically dependent on eukaryotic phytoplankton. Although numerically inferior to …

[CARTE][B] Introduction to organic geochemistry

SD Killops, VJ Killops - 2013 - books.google.com
An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry explores the fate of organic matter of all types,
biogenic and man-made, in the Earth System. investigates the variety of pathways and …