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 …

Marine productivity changes during the end-Permian crisis and Early Triassic recovery

J Shen, SD Schoepfer, Q Feng, L Zhou, J Yu… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) coincided with major changes in the composition
of marine plankton communities, yet little is known about concurrent changes in primary …

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 …

Persistent late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering

C Cao, CP Bataille, H Song, MR Saltzman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In the Precambrian, reverse weathering—a process consuming oceanic silica, metal cations
and alkalinity to form marine clays—was a key control of the long-term carbon cycle …

Ocean acidification and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction

MO Clarkson, SA Kasemann, RA Wood, TM Lenton… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Ocean acidification triggered by Siberian Trap volcanism was a possible kill mechanism for
the Permo-Triassic Boundary mass extinction, but direct evidence for an acidification event …

Latest Permian mercury anomalies

H Sanei, SE Grasby, B Beauchamp - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A sedimentary record from the Buchanan Lake section, Canadian High Arctic, shows
anomalous high levels of mercury (Hg) during the latest Permian extinction (LPE) on …

A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China

SZ Shen, J Ramezani, J Chen, CQ Cao… - GsA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Previous studies of the end-Permian mass extinction have established that it was
geologically rapid, but condensed sections have made it difficult to establish the exact timing …

Strong local, not global, controls on marine pyrite sulfur isotopes

V Pasquier, RN Bryant, DA Fike, I Halevy - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Understanding variation in the sulfur isotopic composition of sedimentary pyrite (δ34Spyr) is
motivated by the key role of sulfur biogeochemistry in regulating Earth's surface oxidation …

Carbon-isotope stratigraphy across the Permian–Triassic boundary: a review

C Korte, HW Kozur - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
The Palaeozoic–Mesozoic transition is marked by distinct perturbations in the global carbon
cycle resulting in a prominent negative carbon-isotope excursion at the Permian–Triassic (P …

Anoxia/high temperature double whammy during the Permian-Triassic marine crisis and its aftermath

H Song, PB Wignall, D Chu, J Tong, Y Sun, H Song… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was the most severe biotic crisis in the past
500 million years. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the crisis, but few …