Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangaea megamonsoon set by palaeogeography

Y Hu, X Li, WR Boos, J Guo, J Lan, Q Lin, J Han… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Geologic evidence and palaeoclimate simulations have indicated the existence of an
extensive, interconnected megamonsoon system over the Pangaea supercontinent …

Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity

DE Ontiveros, G Beaugrand, B Lefebvre… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation

A Pohl, Z Lu, W Lu, RG Stockey, M Elrick, M Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Geochemical redox proxies indicate that seafloor anoxia occurred during the latest
Ordovician glacial maximum, coincident with the second pulse of the Late Ordovician mass …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Quantifying climate conditions for the formation of coals and evaporites

X Bao, Y Hu, CR Scotese, X Li, J Guo… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Coals and evaporites are commonly used as qualitative indicators of wet and dry
environments in deep-time climate studies, respectively. Here, we combine geological …

Persistently active El Niño–Southern Oscillation since the Mesozoic

X Li, S Hu, Y Hu, W Cai, Y Jin, Z Lu, J Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), originating in the central and eastern equatorial
Pacific, is a defining mode of interannual climate variability with profound impact on global …

Paleotemperature record of the middle Devonian Kačák Episode

TJ Suttner, E Kido, MM Joachimski, S Vodrážková… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Devonian Epoch,~ 393–383 million years ago, is known for a peak in
diversity and highest latitudinal distribution of coral and stromatoporoid reefs. About 388 …

Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates

SH Zhang, SZ Shen, DH Erwin - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Understanding the complex patterns of latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs) in deep time
has been hampered by the absence of long-term records of LDGs through multiple climatic …

The Ordovician ocean circulation: a modern synthesis based on data and models

A Pohl, E Nardin, TRA Vandenbroucke, Y Donnadieu - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Surface currents constitute an efficient transport agent for (larvae of) marine faunas, while
the circulation of water masses in the ocean interior drives nutrient redistribution, ventilates …

Carbonate platform production during the Cretaceous

A Pohl, Y Donnadieu, Y Godderis… - GSA …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Platform carbonates are among the most voluminous of Cretaceous deposits. The
production of carbonate platforms fluctuated through time. Yet, the reasons for these …