Major volcanic eruptions linked to the Late Ordovician mass extinction: Evidence from mercury enrichment and Hg isotopes

Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation

(2020) David P.G. Bond et al.   GEOLOGY

Toxic mercury pulses into late Permian terrestrial and marine environments

(2020) Stephen E. Grasby et al.   GEOLOGY

Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2020) Dongping Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom

(2020) Joseph R. McConnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: New global insights

(2020) Jiayu Rong et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mercury Spikes Indicate a Volcanic Trigger for the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Event: An Example from a Deep Shelf of the Peri-Baltic Region

(2019) Justyna Smolarek-Lach et al.   Scientific Reports

Mercury in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin

(2019) Jun Shen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The end-Ordovician mass extinction: A single-pulse event?

(2019) Guangxu Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Duration, evolution, and implications of volcanic activity across the Ordovician–Silurian transition in the Lower Yangtze region, South China

(2019) Shengchao Yang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mercury as a proxy for volcanic emissions in the geologic record

(2019) Stephen E. Grasby et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Globally enhanced Hg deposition and Hg isotopes in sections straddling the Permian–Triassic boundary: Link to volcanism

(2019) A.N. Sial et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mercury anomalies across the end Permian mass extinction in South China from shallow and deep water depositional environments

(2018) Xiangdong Wang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ocean euxinia and climate change “double whammy” drove the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2018) Caineng Zou et al.   GEOLOGY

Mercury enrichments and the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: A volcanic trigger proved?

(2018) Grzegorz Racki et al.   GEOLOGY

Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during the Late Ordovician–early Silurian detected using uranium isotopes of marine carbonates

(2018) Rick Bartlett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mercury isotope signatures record photic zone euxinia in the Mesoproterozoic ocean

(2018) Wang Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2018) T.R. Them et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A volcanic trigger for the Late Ordovician mass extinction? Mercury data from south China and Laurentia

(2017) David S. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

(2017) Richard E. Ernst et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

On the causes of mass extinctions

(2017) David P.G. Bond et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mercury, volcanism, and mass extinctions

(2017) Bridget A. Bergquist   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mercury spikes suggest volcanic driver of the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction

(2017) Qing Gong et al.   Scientific Reports

Isotopic signatures of mercury contamination in latest Permian oceans

(2016) Stephen E. Grasby et al.   GEOLOGY

Graptolite-derived organic matter in the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations (Upper Ordovician–Lower Silurian) of southeastern Chongqing, China: Implications for gas shale evaluation

(2016) Qingyong Luo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Paleomagnetism of the Teel basalts from the Zavkhan terrane: Implications for Paleozoic paleogeography in Mongolia and the growth of continental crust

(2016) T.M. Kilian et al.   Lithosphere

Mercury anomalies and the timing of biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction

(2016) Alyson M. Thibodeau et al.   Nature Communications

Identifying the Sources and Processes of Mercury in Subtropical Estuarine and Ocean Sediments Using Hg Isotopic Composition

(2015) Runsheng Yin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mercury anomalies associated with three extinction events (Capitanian Crisis, Latest Permian Extinction and the Smithian/Spathian Extinction) in NW Pangea

(2015) STEPHEN E. GRASBY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

An improved dual-stage protocol to pre-concentrate mercury from airborne particles for precise isotopic measurement

(2015) Qiang Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY

Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

(2015) M. Sigl et al.   NATURE

Mercury Isotopes in Earth and Environmental Sciences

(2014) Joel D. Blum et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mercury deposition through the Permo–Triassic Biotic Crisis

(2013) Stephen E. Grasby et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Environmental changes in the Late Ordovician-early Silurian: Review and new insights from black shales and nitrogen isotopes

(2013) M. J. Melchin et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction

(2012) Emma U. Hammarlund et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Unusual fractionation of both odd and even mercury isotopes in precipitation from Peterborough, ON, Canada

(2012) JiuBin Chen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Latest Permian mercury anomalies

(2011) H. Sanei et al.   GEOLOGY

The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Did the Late Ordovician African ice sheet reach Europe?

(2010) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco et al.   GEOLOGY

Global Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury: A Review

(2009) Noelle E. Selin   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

(2009) Tonggang Zhang et al.   GEOLOGY

Local and global perspectives on carbon and nitrogen cycling during the Hirnantian glaciation

(2009) D.F. LaPorte et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mercury emissions and stable isotopic compositions at Vulcano Island (Italy)

(2008) T. Zambardi et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Indirect gold trap–MC-ICP-MS coupling for Hg stable isotope analysis using a syringe injection interface

(2008) Jeroen E. Sonke et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY