[HTML][HTML] The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state–An interdisciplinary review

TW Dahl, SKM Arens - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

Astronomical time scale for the Paleozoic Era

H Wu, Q Fang, LA Hinnov, S Zhang, T Yang, M Shi… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Milankovitch cycles are quasi-periodic fluctuations in insolation forced by the variation in
Earth's astronomical parameters. The astronomically induced climate change affected the …

Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont zonation: revised global standard.

C Spalletta, MC Perri, DJ Over, C Corradini - Bulletin of Geosciences, 2017 - iris.unica.it
The revision of the Famennian part of the “Late Devonian Standard Conodont Zonation” is
based on the in-equivalence between biozones and time, and the rejection of the presumed …

[HTML][HTML] A volcanic scenario for the Frasnian–Famennian major biotic crisis and other Late Devonian global changes: More answers than questions?

G Racki - Global and Planetary Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the prime causation of the Late Devonian Frasnian–Famennian (F–F) mass
extinction remains conjectural, such destructive factors as the spread of anoxia and rapid …

Basin-scale reconstruction of euxinia and Late Devonian mass extinctions

SK Sahoo, GJ Gilleaudeau, K Wilson, B Hart… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Devonian–Carboniferous transition marks a fundamental shift in the surface
environment primarily related to changes in ocean–atmosphere oxidation states,, resulting …

Global events of the late Paleozoic (early Devonian to Middle Permian): a review

W Qie, TJ Algeo, G Luo, A Herrmann - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian) was an interval of profound
changes in Earth-surface systems, reflected in dynamic interplay among the biosphere …

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 …

Paleogeography and paleoenvironments of the Late Devonian Kellwasser event: A review of its sedimentological and geochemical expression

SK Carmichael, JA Waters, P Königshof… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Devonian (383-359 Ma) was a time of prolonged climate instability with
catastrophic perturbation of global marine ecosystems at the Frasnian-Famennian (FF) and …

The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record

E Capel, CJ Cleal, J Xue, C Monnet, T Servais… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

UV-B radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary terrestrial extinction kill mechanism

JEA Marshall, J Lakin, I Troth… - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
There is an unexplained terrestrial mass extinction at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary
(359 million years ago). The discovery in east Greenland of malformed land plant spores …