The chemical index of alteration (CIA) as a proxy for climate change during glacial-interglacial transitions in Earth history

P Wang, Y Du, W Yu, TJ Algeo, Q Zhou, Y Xu, L Qi… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The glacial-interglacial transitions of ice ages are associated with large, rapid changes in
climate, which potentially can be reconstructed from stratigraphic profiles of the chemical …

[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 …

[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 …

Evaluation of physical and chemical proxies used to interpret past glaciations with a focus on the late Paleozoic Ice Age

JL Isbell, FF Vesely, ELM Rosa, KN Pauls… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) was one of Earth's most important Phanerozoic
climatic events lasting for over 100 Mys. Despite its importance, its history is controversial …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition

WA DiMichele, AR Bashforth, HJ Falcon-Lang… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Mississippian and Pennsylvanian have been referred to as the Coal Age
due to enormous paleotropical peat accumulations (coal beds). Numerous fossil floras have …

Was climatic cooling during the earliest Carboniferous driven by expansion of seed plants?

B Chen, J Chen, W Qie, P Huang, T He… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The expansion of land plants is considered to have played a key role in triggering the Late
Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA), but evidence linking climatic events to terrestrial floral changes is …

Devonian paleoclimate and its drivers: A reassessment based on a new conodont δ18O record from South China

B Chen, X Ma, BJW Mills, W Qie, MM Joachimski… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new Devonian oxygen isotope record based on 180 measurements of conodont apatite is
reported from South China. The comparison with published Devonian δ 18 O apatite data …

[PDF][PDF] Late paleozoic glaciation

ELM Rosa, JL Isbell - 978-0-08-102909-1, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Ice stream Corridors of fast flowing ice within an ice sheet. Icehouse Earth Cooler, deep-time
intervals where temperatures at the poles are much colder than they are at the Equator and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of trees and forests on the Devonian landscape and weathering processes with implications to the global Earth's system properties-A critical review

Ł Pawlik, B Buma, P Šamonil, J Kvaček, A Gałązka… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Evolution of terrestrial plants, the first vascular plants, the first trees, and then whole forest
ecosystems had far reaching consequences for Earth system dynamics. These innovations …