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 …

Coupling of paleoenvironment and biogeochemistry of deep-time alkaline lakes: A lipid biomarker perspective

L Xia, J Cao, W Hu, D Zhi, Y Tang, E Li, W He - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies of alkaline lakes have critical biological–environmental–economic properties, but
deep-time alkaline lakes are challenging to investigate. Lipid biomarkers can provide …

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 …

Recurrent photic zone euxinia limited ocean oxygenation and animal evolution during the Ediacaran

W Zheng, A Zhou, SK Sahoo, MR Nolan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (~ 635–539 Ma) is marked by the emergence and
diversification of complex metazoans linked to ocean redox changes, but the processes and …

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 …

Mercury isotope evidence for marine photic zone euxinia across the end-Permian mass extinction

R Sun, Y Liu, JE Sonke, Z Feifei, Y Zhao… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The driving forces, kill and recovery mechanisms for the end-Permian mass extinction
(EPME), the largest Phanerozoic biological crisis, are under debate. Sedimentary records of …

Evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode in Gondwana: New multiproxy climate records and their bearing on early dinosaur diversification

AC Mancuso, CA Benavente, RB Irmis, R Mundil - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The Triassic hothouse world experienced dynamic changes in climate and ecosystems that
set the Earth's climate and biotic states for much of the Mesozoic Era. A critical time interval …

Zinc isotope evidence for intensive magmatism immediately before the end-Permian mass extinction

SA Liu, H Wu, S Shen, G Jiang, S Zhang, Y Lv… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The end-Permian extinction is typically ascribed to massive volcanic eruptions, but direct
geochemical evidence linking the two independent events is generally lacking. Zinc is an …

End-Permian burnout: The role of Permian–Triassic wildfires in extinction, carbon cycling, and environmental change in eastern Gondwana

C Mays, S McLoughlin - Palaios, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Wildfire has been implicated as a potential driver of deforestation and continental
biodiversity loss during the end-Permian extinction event (EPE;∼ 252 Ma). However, it …

[HTML][HTML] Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia

M Li, PB Wignall, X Dai, M Hu, H Song - Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The abundance of dolomitic strata in the geological record contrasts with the general rarity of
locations where dolomite forms today, a discrepancy that has long posed a problem for their …