[HTML][HTML] Mercury as a proxy for volcanic emissions in the geologic record

SE Grasby, TR Them II, Z Chen, R Yin… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions are increasingly considered to have driven mass
extinction events throughout the Phanerozoic; however, uncertainties in radiometric age …

[HTML][HTML] The life cycle of large igneous provinces

BA Black, L Karlstrom, TA Mather - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely voluminous magmatic systems known as large igneous provinces (LIPs)
punctuate Earth's history, and the gases they release plausibly link large-scale geodynamic …

Intensified continental chemical weathering and carbon-cycle perturbations linked to volcanism during the Triassic–Jurassic transition

J Shen, R Yin, S Zhang, TJ Algeo, DJ Bottjer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Direct evidence of intense chemical weathering induced by volcanism is rare in sedimentary
successions. Here, we undertake a multiproxy analysis (including organic carbon isotopes …

Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

M Li, Y Xu, L Sun, J Chen, K Zhang, D Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciations bracket a nonglacial
interval during which Demosponge and green-algal biomarkers first appear. To understand …

Mercury evidence for combustion of organic-rich sediments during the end-Triassic crisis

J Shen, R Yin, TJ Algeo, HH Svensen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The sources of isotopically light carbon released during the end-Triassic mass extinction
remain in debate. Here, we use mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopes from a pelagic …

Sedimentary host phases of mercury (Hg) and implications for use of Hg as a volcanic proxy

J Shen, Q Feng, TJ Algeo, J Liu, C Zhou, W Wei… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) concentration enrichments have become a widely used proxy for volcanic
inputs to sediments, especially for investigation of ancient large igneous province (LIP) …

Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects

J Shen, J Chen, J Yu, TJ Algeo, RMH Smith… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) was triggered by magmatism of the Siberian
Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP), which left an extensive record of sedimentary Hg …

Evidence for a prolonged Permian–Triassic extinction interval from global marine mercury records

J Shen, J Chen, TJ Algeo, S Yuan, Q Feng, J Yu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The latest Permian mass extinction, the most devastating biocrisis of the Phanerozoic, has
been widely attributed to eruptions of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province, although …

Paleocene/Eocene carbon feedbacks triggered by volcanic activity

S Kender, K Bogus, GK Pedersen, K Dybkjær… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was a period of geologically-
rapid carbon release and global warming~ 56 million years ago. Although modelling …

[PDF][PDF] Does large igneous province volcanism always perturb the mercury cycle? Comparing the records of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 and the end-Cretaceous to other …

LME Percival, HC Jenkyns, TA Mather… - American Journal of …, 2018 - ajsonline.org
Mercury (Hg) is increasingly being used as a sedimentary tracer of Large Igneous Province
(LIP) volcanism, and supports hypotheses of a coincidence between the formation of several …