An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook, RE Merle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the products of exceptional magmatic events that played
important roles in tectonic plate reorganizations, environmental crises, energy resource …

A chronostratigraphic framework for the upper Stormberg Group: implications for the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in southern Africa

EM Bordy, M Abrahams, GR Sharman, PA Viglietti… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The upper Stormberg Group (Elliot and Clarens formations) of the main Karoo
Basin is well-known for its fossil vertebrate fauna, comprising early branching members of …

Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

TR Them II, CH Jagoe, AH Caruthers, BC Gill… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the utility of sedimentary mercury (Hg) contents as a proxy for
fingerprinting ancient massive volcanism, which is often associated with biogeochemical …

The Jurassic Period

SP Hesselbo, JG Ogg, M Ruhl, LA Hinnov… - Geologic time scale …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ammonites underwent an evolutionary diversification after the mass extinction of the end
Triassic induced by the formation of a Large Igneous province (LIP), and this group provides …

Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction

TR Them, BC Gill, AH Caruthers… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
For this study, we generated thallium (Tl) isotope records from two anoxic basins to track the
earliest changes in global bottom water oxygen contents over the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic …

Substantial vegetation response to Early Jurassic global warming with impacts on oceanic anoxia

SM Slater, RJ Twitchett, S Danise, V Vajda - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
Rapid global warming and oceanic oxygen deficiency during the Early Jurassic Toarcian
Oceanic Anoxic Event at around 183 Ma is associated with a major turnover of marine biota …

The Triassic–Jurassic transition–A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life

SD Schoepfer, TJ Algeo, B van de Schootbrugge… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triassic–Jurassic transition, which is here broadly defined as extending from
the Late Triassic through the Early Jurassic (~ 237 Ma to 174 Ma), was an important interval …

Reduced plate motion controlled timing of Early Jurassic Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province volcanism

M Ruhl, SP Hesselbo, HC Jenkyns, W Xu, RL Silva… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Past large igneous province (LIP) emplacement is commonly associated with mantle plume
upwelling and led to major carbon emissions. One of Earth's largest past environmental …

Radiometric constraints on the timing, tempo, and effects of large igneous province emplacement

J Kasbohm, B Schoene… - Large Igneous Provinces: A …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is an apparent temporal correlation between large igneous province (LIP)
emplacement and global environmental crises, including mass extinctions. Advances in the …

Global versus local processes during the Pliensbachian–Toarcian transition at the Peniche GSSP, Portugal: a multi-proxy record

A Fantasia, T Adatte, JE Spangenberg, E Font… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE,~ 183 Ma) was an episode of extreme
warmth, environmental changes and carbon cycle perturbation. We present a high …