Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the 'Ordovician Revolution': a review

TJ Algeo, PJ Marenco, MR Saltzman - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …

Changes in marine productivity and redox conditions during the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation

L Zhou, TJ Algeo, J Shen, ZF Hu, H Gong, S Xie… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in marine productivity and redox conditions during the end-Ordovician
(Hirnantian) glaciation and Ordovician–Silurian transition were investigated through Mo …

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 …

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

B Schmitz, KA Farley, S Goderis, PR Heck… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
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 …

Graptoloid evolutionary rates track Ordovician–Silurian global climate change

RA Cooper, PM Sadler, A Munnecke… - Geological …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Graptoloid evolutionary dynamics show a marked contrast from the Ordovician to the
Silurian. Subdued extinction and origination rates during the Ordovician give way, during the …

The Bohemo‐Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana

JC Gutiérrez‐Marco, AA Sá, DC García‐Bellido… - Lethaia, 2017 - idunn.no
The Bohemo‐Iberian regional scale for South Gondwana, involving the 'Mediterranean
Province', comprises five regional stages (Arenigian, Oretanian, Dobrotivian, Berounian and …

Glacial onset predated Late Ordovician climate cooling

A Pohl, Y Donnadieu, G Le Hir, JB Ladant… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Ordovician glaciation represents the acme of one of only three major icehouse periods
in Earth's Phanerozoic history and is notorious for setting the scene for one of the “big five” …

Climate changes in the pre-Hirnantian Late Ordovician based on δ18Ophos studies from Estonia

P Männik, O Lehnert, J Nolvak… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Results of conodont-based δ 18 O phos studies from two core sections in Estonia
(Mehikoorma-421 and Valga-10) indicate that the pre-Hirnantian Late Ordovician was …

Sea-level curve for the Middle to early Late Ordovician in the Armorican Massif (western France): Icehouse third-order glacio-eustatic cycles

MP Dabard, A Loi, F Paris, JF Ghienne, M Pistis… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
This contribution deals with the Middle to early Late Ordovician of the Armorican Massif
(western France). The aim is to reconstruct a multi-order eustatic curve from the stratigraphic …