Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

M Zhu, A Yang, J Yuan, G Li, J Zhang, F Zhao… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Cambrian Period is the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon and witnessed the
explosive appearance of the metazoans, representing the beginning of the modern earth-life …

Ediacaran extinction and Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, EF Smith, M Laflamme… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition marks the most important geobiological
revolution of the past billion years, including the Earth's first crisis of macroscopic eukaryotic …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

Cambrian explosion condensed: High-precision geochronology of the lower Wood Canyon Formation, Nevada

LL Nelson, JL Crowley, EF Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The geologically rapid appearance of fossils of modern animal phyla within Cambrian strata
is a defining characteristic of the history of life on Earth. However, temporal calibration of the …

Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation of animals

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, GA Shields… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals,
lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the …

A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Thresholds of catastrophe in the Earth system

DH Rothman - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
The history of the Earth system is a story of change. Some changes are gradual and benign,
but others, especially those associated with catastrophic mass extinction, are relatively …

[HTML][HTML] Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary

T Topper, MJ Betts, D Dorjnamjaa, G Li, L Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The diversification of animals during the Cambrian Period is one of the most significant
evolutionary events in Earth's history. However, the sequence of events leading to the origin …

Implications of an integrated late Ediacaran to early Cambrian stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform, Russia

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, F Zhao… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The transition from the terminal Ediacaran to early Cambrian (ca. 550–530 Ma) witnessed
both the decline of Ediacaran-type soft-bodied and skeletal biota and the rapid …

Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations

TW Dahl, JN Connelly, D Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The proliferation of large, motile animals 540 to 520 Ma has been linked to both rising and
declining O2 levels on Earth. To explore this conundrum, we reconstruct the global extent of …