Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply

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A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

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New age constraints on the duration and origin of the Late Ordovician Guttenberg δ13Ccarb excursion from high-precision U-Pb geochronology of K-bentonites

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K-bentonites in Ordovician–Silurian transition from South China: implications for tectonic evolution in the northern margin of Gondwana

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Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

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Constraints on the accumulation of organic matter in Upper Ordovician-lower Silurian black shales from the Lower Yangtze region, South China

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Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

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

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Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

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The role of tephra in enhancing organic carbon preservation in marine sediments

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New U-Pb zircon age and carbon isotope records from the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and environmental change

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A new age model for the Ordovician (Sandbian) K-bentonites in Oslo, Norway

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

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Nature of the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Xiaohe section, Hunan-Hubei area, South China: implications for the Kwangsian Orogeny

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Volcanic activities triggered the first global cooling event in the Phanerozoic

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Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling

(2019) Lewis J. Alcott et al.   SCIENCE

Was volcanic activity during the Ordovician-Silurian transition in South China part of a global phenomenon? Constraints from zircon U–Pb dating of volcanic ash beds in black shales

(2019) Xuebin Du et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Lithostratigraphy of the upper Turinian-lower Chatfieldian (Upper Ordovician) foreland succession, and a U-Pb ID-TIMS date for the Millbrig volcanic ash bed, in the Ottawa Embayment.

(2018) Nkechi Oruche et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of K-bentonites from the Late Ordovician to the Early Silurian in South China and their geological significance

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One Million Years tephra record at IODP Sites U1436 and U1437: Insights into explosive volcanism from the Japan and Izu arcs

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Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation

(2018) Jiaheng Shen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

The timescale of early land plant evolution

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organic-matter-rich shales of China

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Systemic swings in end-Permian climate from Siberian Traps carbon and sulfur outgassing

(2018) Benjamin A. Black et al.   Nature Geoscience

Molecular fossils from phytoplankton reveal secular Pco2 trend over the Phanerozoic

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Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present day

(2018) Benjamin J.W. Mills et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2017) David S. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Elevated CO2 degassing rates prevented the return of Snowball Earth during the Phanerozoic

(2017) Benjamin J. W. Mills et al.   Nature Communications

Late Cenozoic tephrostratigraphy offshore the southern Central American Volcanic Arc: 1. Tephra ages and provenance

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Tephra layers of in the quaternary deposits of the Sea of Okhotsk: Distribution, composition, age and volcanic sources

(2016) Alexander N. Derkachev et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Stratigraphic correlations using trace elements in apatite from Late Ordovician (Sandbian-Katian) K-bentonites of eastern North America

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Astronomically forced cyclicity in the Upper Ordovician and U–Pb ages of interlayered tephra, Oslo Region, Norway

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Metal-induced malformations in early Palaeozoic plankton are harbingers of mass extinction

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New U–Pb zircon ages of the Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) “Big K-bentonite” in Baltoscandia (Estonia and Sweden) by LA-ICPMS

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Global chemical weathering and associated P-release — The role of lithology, temperature and soil properties

(2013) Jens Hartmann et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

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Precise timing of the Late Ordovician (Sandbian) super-eruptions and associated environmental, biological, and climatological events

(2013) B. Sell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Deep-sea ash layers reveal evidence for large, late Pleistocene and Holocene explosive activity from Sumatra, Indonesia

(2012) Morgan J. Salisbury et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

First plants cooled the Ordovician

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

Ash generation and distribution from the April-May 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

(2012) Magnús T. Gudmundsson et al.   Scientific Reports

Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse?: COMMENT

(2011) Achim D. Herrmann et al.   GEOLOGY

Linking mantle plumes, large igneous provinces and environmental catastrophes

(2011) Stephan V. Sobolev et al.   NATURE

The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level

(2010) Blair Schoene et al.   GEOLOGY

Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse?

(2010) Werner Buggisch et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre 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

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

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Rapid releases of metal salts and nutrients following the deposition of volcanic ash into aqueous environments

(2008) Morgan T. Jones et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

Reconstructing the Quaternary evolution of the world's most active silicic volcanic system: insights from an ∼1.65Ma deep ocean tephra record sourced from Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating from K-bentonite in the top of Ordovician of Wangjiawan Section, Yichang, Hubei, China

(2008) YanHua Hu et al.   Science in China. Series D, Earth sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences