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 …

Review of stable mercury isotopes in ecology and biogeochemistry

MTK Tsui, JD Blum, SY Kwon - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advent of cold vapor-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma mass
spectrometry (CV-MC-ICP-MS) in the past two decades, many research groups studying …

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) …

Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

TR Them II, CH Jagoe, AH Caruthers, BC Gill… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the utility of sedimentary mercury (Hg) contents as a proxy for
fingerprinting ancient massive volcanism, which is often associated with biogeochemical …

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 in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin

J Shen, TJ Algeo, J Chen, NJ Planavsky, Q Feng… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) enrichment in stratigraphic successions is now widely used as a proxy for
volcanic inputs, often for the purpose of documenting a relationship between large igneous …

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 …

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 …

Mass-independent fractionation of even and odd mercury isotopes during atmospheric mercury redox reactions

X Fu, M Jiskra, X Yang, N Marusczak… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass-independent fractionation (MIF) of stable even mass number mercury (Hg) isotopes is
observed in rainfall and gaseous elemental Hg0 globally and is used to quantify …