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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

[HTML][HTML] Unconventional petroleum sedimentology: Connotation and prospect

Q Zhen, Z Caineng - 沉积学报, 2020 - cjxb.ac.cn
The theoretical framework of Unconventional Petroleum Geology has been gradually
established along with the rapid progresses in exploration and development of …

A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

SL Goldberg, TM Present… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Sedimentary host phases of mercury (Hg) and implications for use of Hg as a volcanic proxy

J Shen, Q Feng, TJ Algeo, J Liu, C Zhou, W Wei… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) concentration enrichments have become a widely used proxy for volcanic
inputs to sediments, especially for investigation of ancient large igneous province (LIP) …

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 …

Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

Mercury in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin

J Shen, TJ Algeo, J Chen, NJ Planavsky, Q Feng… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) enrichment in stratigraphic successions is now widely used as a proxy for
volcanic inputs, often for the purpose of documenting a relationship between large igneous …

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 …

The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: new global insights

J Rong, DAT Harper, B Huang, R Li, X Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial distribution of Hirnantian brachiopod faunas are reviewed based
on a new, comprehensive dataset from over 20 palaeoplates and terranes, a revised …