Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

J Dal Corso, H Song, S Callegaro, D Chu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

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] On the causes of mass extinctions

DPG Bond, SE Grasby - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

[HTML][HTML] Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

SD Burgess, JD Muirhead, SA Bowring - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse
and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived …

A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China

SZ Shen, J Ramezani, J Chen, CQ Cao… - GSA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Previous studies of the end-Permian mass extinction have established that it was
geologically rapid, but condensed sections have made it difficult to establish the exact timing …

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

SE Grasby, W Shen, R Yin, JD Gleason… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentary records from the northwest margin of Pangea and the Tethys show
anomalously high Hg levels at the latest Permian extinction boundary. Background δ202Hg …

Massive and rapid predominantly volcanic CO2 emission during the end-Permian mass extinction

Y Cui, M Li, EE Van Soelen, F Peterse… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The end-Permian mass extinction event (∼ 252 Mya) is associated with one of the largest
global carbon cycle perturbations in the Phanerozoic and is thought to be triggered by the …

[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 …

The Permian chert event in South China: new geochemical constraints and global implications

B Zhang, J Cao, L Mu, S Yao, W Hu, H Huang… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Permian Chert Event (PCE) was an unusual global chert accumulation that
reflects tectonic–climatic–environmental changes during the late Paleozoic. South China …

A two-phase end-Triassic mass extinction

PB Wignall, JW Atkinson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The end-Triassic mass extinction was one of the big five crises of the fossil record. It affected
diverse marine groups, including bivalves, brachiopods, ostracods, calcareous algae …