Altered river morphology in South Africa related to the Permian-Triassic extinction

PD Ward, DR Montgomery, R Smith - Science, 2000 - science.org
The Permian-Triassic transition in the Karoo Basin of South Africa was characterized by a
rapid and apparently basin-wide change from meandering to braided river systems, as …

Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

PD Ward, J Botha, R Buick, MO De Kock, DH Erwin… - Science, 2005 - science.org
The Karoo basin of South Africa exposes a succession of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic
terrestrial strata containing abundant terrestrial vertebrate fossils. Paleomagnetic …

Pattern of vertebrate extinctions across an event bed at the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa

RMH Smith, PD Ward - Geology, 2001 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The extinction of vertebrates around the time of the Permian-Triassic boundary has long
been regarded as a gradual event occurring over millions of years. Our new field …

Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event?

RA Gastaldo, SL Kamo, J Neveling… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The end-Permian extinction records the greatest ecological catastrophe in Earth history. The
vertebrate fossil record in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, has been used for more than a …

Vertebrate extinction across Permian–Triassic boundary in Karoo Basin, South Africa

GJ Retallack, RMH Smith… - Geological Society of …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Distinct assemblages of paleosols above and below the Permian–Triassic boundary in the
Karoo Basin of South Africa are evidence for reorganization of ecosystems following this …

[HTML][HTML] The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction

R Smith, J Botha - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2005 - Elsevier
The southern half of the main Karoo Basin in South Africa contains an almost continuous
stratigraphic record of terrestrial sedimentation through the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB) …

Permian-Triassic life crisis on land

GJ Retallack - Science, 1995 - science.org
Recent advances in radiometric dating and isotopic stratigraphy have resulted in a different
placement of the Permian-Triassic boundary within the sedimentary sequence of the Sydney …

Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of the Permian–Triassic boundary in the continental realm of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa

L Coney, WU Reimold, PJ Hancox, D Mader, C Koeberl… - Palaeoworld, 2007 - Elsevier
Mineralogical and geochemical studies of the non-marine Permian–Triassic (P–Tr)
boundary across two stratigraphically well-constrained sections (Commando Drift Dam and …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

New geochemical and palaeontological data from the Permian-Triassic boundary in the South African Karoo Basin test the synchronicity of terrestrial and marine …

J Botha, AK Huttenlocker, RMH Smith, R Prevec… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) is widely recognised as the largest mass
extinction in Phanerozoic history. In marine strata the main extinction event is well …