Milankovitch cycles are quasi-periodic fluctuations in insolation forced by the variation in
Earth's astronomical parameters. The astronomically induced climate change affected the …

The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

The Ordovician biodiversification has been recognized since the 1960s; the term 'The Great
Ordovician Biodiversification Event', abbreviated by many as the 'GOBE', has been used for …

The Ordovician biodiversification is considered one of the most significant radiations in the
marine ecosystems of the entire Phanerozoic. Originally recognized as the 'Ordovician …

Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

We present a new approach to laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
(LA‐ICP‐MS) U‐Pb dating of carbonates based on selection and pooling of pixels from 2‐D …

Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

The breakup of the L-chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt 466 million years (Ma) ago
still delivers almost a third of all meteorites falling on Earth. Our new extraterrestrial chromite …

Despite several, sometimes prominent propagators, meteorite impact research had a long
period of peripheral status until the 1980s. Since then there has been an intensive search for …