Age correlation of Large Igneous Provinces with Devonian biotic crises

RE Ernst, SA Rodygin, OM Grinev - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) are emerging as a significant driver of short
duration climatic change including mass extinctions. Here we compare the record of LIPs …

[HTML][HTML] The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole

CR Penn-Clarke, DAT Harper - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Global reconstructions, inclusive of environments and ecosystems, and biodiversity counts
for the Devonian Period are often done so at the expense of high latitude regions given a …

[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 …

Major Early-Middle Devonian oceanic oxygenation linked to early land plant evolution detected using high-resolution U isotopes of marine limestones

M Elrick, GJ Gilleaudeau, SJ Romaniello… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The middle Paleozoic (∼ 420-350 Myr) records a major increase in ocean-
atmosphere oxygen levels; however, the timing and pattern of oxygenation are poorly …

Extensive marine anoxia associated with the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis

F Zhang, TW Dahl, TM Lenton, G Luo, S Shen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The global Hangenberg Crisis near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary (DCB)
represents one of the major Phanerozoic mass extinction events, which shaped the roots of …

Enhanced terrestrial nutrient release during the Devonian emergence and expansion of forests: Evidence from lacustrine phosphorus and geochemical records

MS Smart, G Filippelli, WP Gilhooly III… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The evolution of land plant root systems occurred stepwise throughout the Devonian, with
the first evidence of complex root systems appearing in the mid-Givetian. This biological …

Volcanism as a prime cause of mass extinctions: Retrospectives and perspectives

G Racki - 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In recent models of earth-system crises, the correlation between the major Phanerozoic
mass extinctions and large igneous provinces has been well established. Specifically …

Photic-zone euxinia and anoxic events in a Middle-Late Devonian shelfal sea of Panthalassan continental margin, NW Canada: changing paradigm of Devonian …

P Kabanov, C Jiang - Global and planetary change, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The latest Eifelian–Frasnian strata of the Mackenzie Valley, NW Canada, provide
an excellent archive of paleoceanographic signals imprinted in oxic and anoxic facies …

Ultra-high resolution multivariate record and multiscale causal analysis of Pridoli (late Silurian): implications for global stratigraphy, turnover events, and climate-biota …

A Spiridonov, R Stankevič, T Gečas, A Brazauskas… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The upper Silurian, and especially Pridoli epoch is a critical interval for the understanding
the evolution of Earth's biota, since it witnessed series of powerful extinction events, global …

Tracking Silurian-Devonian events and paleobathymetric curves by ichnologic and taphonomic analyzes in the southwestern Gondwana

D Sedorko, RG Netto, RS Horodyski - Global and Planetary Change, 2019 - Elsevier
Trace fossils have been used worldwide to access paleoecologic data in sedimentary
sections. In Paraná Basin (southern Brazil), trace fossils are stratigraphically well distributed; …