Mercury as a proxy for volcanic emissions in the geologic record

SE Grasby, TR Them II, Z Chen, R Yin… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions are increasingly considered to have driven mass
extinction events throughout the Phanerozoic; however, uncertainties in radiometric age …

A two-phase end-Triassic mass extinction

PB Wignall, JW Atkinson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The end-Triassic mass extinction was one of the big five crises of the fossil record. It affected
diverse marine groups, including bivalves, brachiopods, ostracods, calcareous algae …

Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

M Li, Y Xu, L Sun, J Chen, K Zhang, D Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciations bracket a nonglacial
interval during which Demosponge and green-algal biomarkers first appear. To understand …

[HTML][HTML] Globally enhanced mercury deposition during the end-Pliensbachian extinction and Toarcian OAE: A link to the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province

LME Percival, MLI Witt, TA Mather, M Hermoso… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mesozoic Era featured emplacement of a number of Large Igneous Provinces
(LIPs), formed by the outpouring of millions of cubic kilometres of basaltic magma. The …

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

SE Grasby, W Shen, R Yin, JD Gleason… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary records from the northwest margin of Pangea and the Tethys show
anomalously high Hg levels at the latest Permian extinction boundary. Background δ202Hg …

[PDF][PDF] Does large igneous province volcanism always perturb the mercury cycle? Comparing the records of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 and the end-Cretaceous to other …

LME Percival, HC Jenkyns, TA Mather… - American Journal of …, 2018 - ajsonline.org
Mercury (Hg) is increasingly being used as a sedimentary tracer of Large Igneous Province
(LIP) volcanism, and supports hypotheses of a coincidence between the formation of several …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of redox variability and early diagenesis on marine sedimentary Hg records

J Frieling, TA Mather, C März, HC Jenkyns… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Volcanism is a dominant natural source of mercury (Hg) to the atmosphere, biosphere,
ocean and sediments. In recent years, sedimentary Hg contents have emerged as a tool to …

Mercury anomalies associated with three extinction events (Capitanian crisis, latest Permian extinction and the Smithian/Spathian extinction) in NW Pangea

SE Grasby, B Beauchamp, DPG Bond… - Geological …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Strata of Permian–Early Triassic age that include a record of three major extinction
events (Capitanian Crisis, Latest Permian Extinction and the Smithian/Spathian Extinction) …

Mercury evidence of intense volcanic effects on land during the Permian-Triassic transition

J Shen, J Yu, J Chen, TJ Algeo, G Xu, Q Feng… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Siberian Traps large igneous province (STLIP) was the likely trigger for the ca.
252 Ma latest Permian mass extinction (LPME), but direct evidence for global volcanic …

Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

G Keller, P Mateo, J Monkenbusch, N Thibault… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) anomalies linked to Large Igneous Provinces (LIP) volcanism have been
identified in sediments across all five major mass extinctions in Earth's history. This study …