Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting

(2012) P.A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Continental arc-island arc fluctuations, growth of crustal carbonates, and long-term climate change

(2012) C.-T. A. Lee et al.   Geosphere

Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion

(2012) Shanan E. Peters et al.   NATURE

Sulfur isotope evidence for widespread euxinia and a fluctuating oxycline in Early to Middle Ordovician greenhouse oceans

(2011) Cara K. Thompson et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) Peter Molnar et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

(2010) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   NATURE

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

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

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Calibrating the Cryogenian

(2010) F. A. Macdonald et al.   SCIENCE

Geologic and Biologic Controls on the Evolution of Reefs

(2009) Wolfgang Kiessling   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

(2009) Seth A. Young et al.   GEOLOGY

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

(2008) J. A. Trotter et al.   SCIENCE

The Geological Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

(2008) L. H. Royden et al.   SCIENCE