Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

New thoughts about the Cretaceous climate and oceans

WW Hay, S Floegel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Several new discoveries suggest that the climate of the Cretaceous may have been more
different from that of today than has been previously supposed. Detailed maps of climate …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

SD Burgess, JD Muirhead, SA Bowring - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse
and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon isotope stratigraphy

MR Saltzman, E Thomas, FM Gradstein - The geologic time scale, 2012 - academia.edu
Variations in the 13C/12C value of total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the world's
oceans through time have been documented through stratigraphic study of marine …

[HTML][HTML] Geology and paleontology of the upper cretaceous Kem Kem group of eastern Morocco

N Ibrahim, PC Sereno, DJ Varricchio, DM Martill… - ZooKeys, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the
fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to …

Massive and prolonged deep carbon emissions associated with continental rifting

H Lee, JD Muirhead, TP Fischer, CJ Ebinger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Carbon from Earth's interior is thought to be released to the atmosphere mostly via
degassing of CO2 from active volcanoes,,,. CO2 can also escape along faults away from …

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 …

[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 …

Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician–early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes

MJ Melchin, CE Mitchell, C Holmden, P Štorch - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Ordovician (Katian-Hirnantian) through earliest Silurian (Rhuddanian)
interval was a time of varying climate and sea level, marked by a peak glacial episode in the …