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

Dynamic sulfur and carbon cycling through the end-Ordovician extinction revealed by paired sulfate–pyrite δ34S

(2013) David S. Jones et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Orbital-scale climate change and glacioeustasy during the early Late Ordovician (pre-Hirnantian) determined from δ18O values in marine apatite

(2013) M. Elrick et al.   GEOLOGY

Did lingering ice sheets moderate anoxia in the Early Palaeozoic of Libya?

(2013) Daniel Paul Le Heron et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Palaeoecology of the Graptoloidea

(2012) R.A. Cooper et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

More about the Ordovician–Silurian transition beds at Mirny Creek, Omulev Mountains, NE Russia: carbon isotopes and conodonts

(2012) D Kaljo et al.   Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences

Tightly coupled records of Ca and C isotope changes during the Hirnantian glaciation event in an epeiric sea setting

(2012) C. Holmden et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Reconstructing Late Ordovician carbon cycle variations

(2012) Richard D. Pancost et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sequence Architecture of the Bighorn Dolomite, Wyoming, USA: Transition To the Late Ordovician Icehouse

(2012) S. M. Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Graptoloid diversity and disparity became decoupled during the Ordovician mass extinction

(2012) D. W. Bapst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2012) S. Finnegan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Late Ordovician deglaciation sequence of the SW Murzuq Basin (Libya)

(2011) Julien Moreau   BASIN RESEARCH

Revision of the position of the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in southern Ontario: regional chronostratigraphic implications of δ13C chemostratigraphy of the Manitoulin Formation and associated strata

(2011) Stig M. Bergström et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Predominance of stratified anoxic Yangtze Sea interrupted by short-term oxygenation during the Ordo-Silurian transition

(2011) Detian Yan et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Conditions required for oceanic anoxia/euxinia: Constraints from a one-dimensional ocean biogeochemical cycle model

(2011) Kazumi Ozaki et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the origin of Cenozoic and Mesozoic “third-order” eustatic sequences

(2011) Slah Boulila et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Quebec, Canada)

(2011) D. S. Jones et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

(2011) E. Nardin et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Major oceanic redox condition change correlated with the rebound of marine animal diversity during the Late Ordovician

(2011) Tonggang Zhang et al.   GEOLOGY

Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: The Serpukhovian (early Carboniferous) crisis had a greater ecological impact than the end-Ordovician

(2011) George R. McGhee et al.   GEOLOGY

Influence of diagenesis on sedimentary δ15N in the Arabian Sea over the last 130kyr

(2011) Jürgen Möbius et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Did the amalgamation of continents drive the end Ordovician mass extinctions?

(2011) Christian M.Ø. Rasmussen et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Phytoplankton dynamics across the Ordovician/Silurian boundary at low palaeolatitudes: Correlations with carbon isotopic and glacial events

(2011) Aurélien Delabroye et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biogeography and Mass Extinction: Extirpation and re-invasion of Normalograptus species (Graptolithina) in the Late Ordovician Palaeotropics

(2011) Daniel Goldman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Phylogeny and Adaptive Radiation of the Neograptina (Graptoloida) During the Hirnantian Mass Extinction and Silurian Recovery

(2011) M. J. Melchin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sequencing the graptoloid clade: building a global diversity curve from local range charts, regional composites and global time-lines

(2011) Peter M. Sadler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE YORKSHIRE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Cryptospore assemblages from Upper Ordovician (Katian–Hirnantian) strata of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada, and Estonia: Palaeophytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications

(2011) Marco Vecoli et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence from chlorin nitrogen isotopes for alternating nutrient regimes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

(2010) Meytal B. Higgins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tracking the Hirnantian glaciation using Os isotopes

(2010) Alexander J. Finlay et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Chitinozoan biostratigraphy of a new Upper Ordovician stratigraphic framework for Anticosti Island, Canada

(2010) A. Achab et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Did the Late Ordovician African ice sheet reach Europe?

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

Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse?

(2010) Werner Buggisch et al.   GEOLOGY

An Alpine-style Ordovician collision complex in the Sierra de Pie de Palo, Argentina: Record of subduction of Cuyania beneath the Famatina arc

(2010) C.R. van Staal et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Revised correlation of Silurian Provincial Series of North America with global and regional chronostratigraphic units and δ13Ccarb chemostratigraphy

(2010) BRADLEY D. CRAMER et al.   LETHAIA

Did a Katian large igneous province trigger the Late Ordovician glaciation?

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biostratigraphical calibration of third order Ordovician sequences on the northern Gondwana platform

(2010) Blaise Videt et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Did changes in atmospheric CO2 coincide with latest Ordovician glacial–interglacial cycles?

(2010) Seth A. Young et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Depositional sequences and palaeoceanographic change in the Ordovician of the Siberian craton

(2010) Alexander Kanygin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ordovician and Silurian sea–water chemistry, sea level, and climate: A synopsis

(2010) Axel Munnecke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A far-field record of the end Ordovician glaciation: The Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Eastern Canada

(2010) André Desrochers et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Middle and Upper Ordovician carbon isotope chemostratigraphy in Baltoscandia: A correlation standard and clues to environmental history

(2010) L. Ainsaar et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

δ18O composition of conodont apatite indicates climatic cooling during the Middle Pridoli

(2010) Živilė Žigaitė et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Late Ordovician glacio-eustatic record from a high-latitude storm-dominated shelf succession: The Bou Ingarf section (Anti-Atlas, Southern Morocco)

(2010) A. Loi et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Phanerozoic Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs), HEATT (Haline Euxinic Acidic Thermal Transgression) episodes, and mass extinctions

(2010) David L. Kidder et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Katian (Upper Ordovician) δ13C chemostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the United States and Baltoscandia: A regional comparison

(2010) Stig M. Bergström et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeoclimate perturbations before the Sheinwoodian glaciation: A trigger for extinctions during the ‘Ireviken Event’

(2010) Oliver Lehnert et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

DID A VOLCANIC MEGA-ERUPTION CAUSE GLOBAL COOLING DURING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN?

(2010) A. D. HERRMANN et al.   PALAIOS

Facies preference predicts extinction risk in Ordovician graptolites

(2010) Roger A. Cooper et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Relation of Phanerozoic stable isotope excursions to climate, bacterial metabolism, and major extinctions

(2010) S. M. Stanley   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polar front shift and atmospheric CO2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse

(2010) T. R. A. Vandenbroucke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Changing influence of Antarctic and Greenlandic temperature records on sea-level over the last glacial cycle

(2010) Mark Siddall et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

(2010) Nicholas J. Butterfield   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen: New results using the GEOCARBSULF model

(2009) R. A. Berner   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Tracking Euxinia in the Ancient Ocean: A Multiproxy Perspective and Proterozoic Case Study

(2009) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Lower Paleozoic Thermal Maturity and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

(2009) K. Dewing et al.  

Modeling phosphorus cycling and carbon burial during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events

(2009) I. Tsandev et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ancient glaciations and hydrocarbon accumulations in North Africa and the Middle East

(2009) Daniel Paul Le Heron et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The end-Ordovician glaciation and the Hirnantian Stage: A global review and questions about Late Ordovician event stratigraphy

(2009) A. Delabroye et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Imbricated ocean-plate stratigraphy and U-Pb zircon ages from tuff beds in cherts in the Ballantrae complex, SW Scotland

(2009) Y. Sawaki et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

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

(2009) Tonggang Zhang et al.   GEOLOGY

A major drop in seawater 87Sr/86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): Links to volcanism and climate?

(2009) Seth A. Young et al.   GEOLOGY

LOWER SILURIAN “HOT SHALES” IN JORDAN: A NEW DEPOSITIONAL MODEL

(2009) D. K. Loydell et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Calculating ice volumes and ice flux to constrain the dimensions of a 440 Ma North African ice sheet

(2009) Daniel Paul Le Heron et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

Carbon and sulfur isotopic anomalies across the Ordovician–Silurian boundary on the Yangtze Platform, South China

(2009) Detian Yan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

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

Response of the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Upper Ordovician glaciation

(2009) Howard A. Armstrong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeoecological patterns within the dysaerobic biofacies: Examples from Devonian black shales of New York state

(2009) Diana L. Boyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Carbon isotopes and event stratigraphy near the Ordovician–Silurian boundary, Yichang, South China

(2009) Junxuan Fan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Tracking Silurian eustasy: Alignment of empirical evidence or pursuit of deductive reasoning?

(2009) Markes E. Johnson   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The bryozoan dispersion into the Mediterranean margin of Gondwana during the pre-glacial Late Ordovician

(2009) A. Jiménez-Sánchez et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Ordovician geographic patterns of extinction compared with simulations of astrophysical ionizing radiation damage

(2009) Adrian L. Melott et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Evolution of oil and gas generation in the Earth’s history and petroleum prediction in sedimentary basins

(2009) T.K. Bazhenova   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Glaciation and deglaciation of the Libyan Desert: The Late Ordovician record

(2009) D.P. Le Heron et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences

(2008) Katja M. Meyer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The regional stratotype section and point for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost Ordovician) at Mirny Creek, Omulev Mountains, Northeast Russia

(2008) T N Koren' et al.   Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences

Paleozoic tectonic domains of Nevada: An interpretive discussion to accompany the geologic map of Nevada

(2008) A. Elizabeth Jones Crafford   Geosphere

K-bentonite, black-shale and flysch successions at the Ordovician–Silurian transition, South China: Possible sedimentary responses to the accretion of Cathaysia to the Yangtze Block and its implications for the evolution of Gondwana

(2008) Wenbo Su et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Lowermost Silurian graptolites of Montagne Noire, France

(2008) Petr Štorch et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ13C chemostratigraphy

(2008) STIG M. BERGSTRÖM et al.   LETHAIA

Paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg records of Upper Ordovician (Sandbian–Katian) carbonates in North America and China: Implications for paleoceanographic change

(2008) Seth A. Young et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Phanerozoic organic-carbon-rich marine sediments: Overview and future research challenges

(2008) A. Negri et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Black shale deposition in an Upper Ordovician–Silurian permanently stratified, peri-glacial basin, southern Jordan

(2008) Howard A. Armstrong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Organic-carbon deposition and coastal upwelling at mid-latitude during the Upper Ordovician (Late Katian): A case study from the Welsh Basin, UK

(2008) T.J. Challands et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Paleo-redox conditions during OAE 2 reflected in Demerara Rise sediment geochemistry (ODP Leg 207)

(2008) Almut Hetzel et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

(2008) J. A. Trotter et al.   SCIENCE

A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes

(2008) B. U. Haq et al.   SCIENCE

Organic nitrogen chemistry during low-grade metamorphism

(2007) Jean-Paul Boudou et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Restudy of some Ordovician–Silurian boundary graptolites from Anticosti Island, Canada, and their biostratigraphic significance

(2007) MICHAEL J. MELCHIN   LETHAIA

Fossil microphytoplankton dynamics across the Ordovician–Silurian boundary

(2007) Marco Vecoli   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY