Oceanic anoxic events, photic-zone euxinia, and controversy of sea-level fluctuations during the Middle-Late Devonian

P Kabanov, TE Hauck, SA Gouwy, SE Grasby… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews global records of anoxic events of the Middle Devonian–earliest
Mississippian, as well as the possible triggers and controls of these events. These “anoxic …

Biological weathering and the long‐term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm

LL Taylor, JR Leake, J Quirk, K Hardy, SA Banwart… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic decline in atmospheric CO2 evidenced by proxy data during the Devonian
(416.0–359.2 Ma) and the gradual decline from the Cretaceous (145.5–65.5 Ma) onwards …

Gaining ground

JA Clack - The origin and evolution of Tetrapods. Bloomington …, 2002 - degruyter.com
Professor Jenny Clack in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 2012.
Photograph Maja Daniels. fossil-hunting expeditions there in 1987, along with her husband …

[HTML][HTML] A volcanic scenario for the Frasnian–Famennian major biotic crisis and other Late Devonian global changes: more answers than questions?

G Racki - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the prime causation of the Late Devonian Frasnian–Famennian (F–F) mass
extinction remains conjectural, such destructive factors as the spread of anoxia and rapid …

Mercury enrichments and the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: A volcanic trigger proved?

G Racki, M Rakociński, L Marynowski… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Frasnian-Famennian (FF) global event, one of the five largest biotic crises of
the Phanerozoic, has been inconclusively linked to rapid climatic perturbations promoted in …

Paleogeography and paleoenvironments of the Late Devonian Kellwasser event: A review of its sedimentological and geochemical expression

SK Carmichael, JA Waters, P Königshof… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Devonian (383-359 Ma) was a time of prolonged climate instability with
catastrophic perturbation of global marine ecosystems at the Frasnian-Famennian (FF) and …

Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Devonian of Central and Southern Europe

W Buggisch, MM Joachimski - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2006 - Elsevier
Carbonate rocks of the Rhenohercynian and Saxothuringian zones of the Variscan
Mountains, Prague Syncline, Carnic Alps, Montagne Noire, Pyrenees, and Cantabrian …

Mercury isotope evidence for recurrent photic-zone euxinia triggered by enhanced terrestrial nutrient inputs during the Late Devonian mass extinction

W Zheng, GJ Gilleaudeau, TJ Algeo, Y Zhao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Widespread oceanic anoxia marked by globally extensive deposition of organic-rich black
shale during the Late Devonian was a major factor in the mass extinctions at the Frasnian …

Toward understanding Late Devonian global events: few answers, many questions

G Racki - Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 2005 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Devonian was an epoch of dramatic evolutionary and environmental
changes linked primarily with the Frasnian-Famennian (FF) mass extinction. Current data …

Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity

D De Vleeschouwer, AC Da Silva, M Sinnesael… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Devonian envelops one of Earth's big five mass extinction events at the
Frasnian–Famennian boundary (374 Ma). Environmental change across the extinction …