Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

J Dal Corso, M Bernardi, Y Sun, H Song… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes
and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023‏ - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Intensified continental chemical weathering and carbon-cycle perturbations linked to volcanism during the Triassic–Jurassic transition

J Shen, R Yin, S Zhang, TJ Algeo, DJ Bottjer… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Direct evidence of intense chemical weathering induced by volcanism is rare in sedimentary
successions. Here, we undertake a multiproxy analysis (including organic carbon isotopes …

Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis

J Shen, R Yin, TJ Algeo, HH Svensen… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The sources of isotopically light carbon released during the end-Triassic mass extinction
remain in debate. Here, we use mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopes from a pelagic …

Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects

J Shen, J Chen, J Yu, TJ Algeo, RMH Smith… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) was triggered by magmatism of the Siberian
Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP), which left an extensive record of sedimentary Hg …

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 …

UV-B radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary terrestrial extinction kill mechanism

JEA Marshall, J Lakin, I Troth… - Science Advances, 2020‏ - science.org
There is an unexplained terrestrial mass extinction at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary
(359 million years ago). The discovery in east Greenland of malformed land plant spores …

Climate-forced Hg-remobilization associated with fern mutagenesis in the aftermath of the end-Triassic extinction

R Bos, W Zheng, S Lindström, H Sanei… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The long-term effects of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, a large igneous province
connected to the end-Triassic mass-extinction (201.5 Ma), remain largely elusive. Here, we …

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 …