Rapid marine oxygen variability: Driver of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

Oceanic anoxia and extinction in the latest Ordovician

(2022) Mu Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Different controls on the Hg spikes linked the two pulses of the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

(2022) Zhen Qiu et al.   Scientific Reports

Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies

(2021) Tais W. Dahl et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Transient ocean oxygenation at end-Permian mass extinction onset shown by thallium isotopes

(2021) Sean M. Newby et al.   Nature Geoscience

Constraining oceanic oxygenation during the Shuram excursion in South China using thallium isotopes

(2020) Haifeng Fan et al.   Geobiology

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

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

Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

(2020) Richard G. Stockey et al.   Nature Communications

The latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas: New global insights

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

Thallium isotope ratios in shales from South China and northwestern Canada suggest widespread O2 accumulation in marine bottom waters was an uncommon occurrence during the Ediacaran Period

(2020) Chadlin M. Ostrander et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

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

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

(2019) Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event

(2019) Chadlin M. Ostrander et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Linking the progressive expansion of reducing conditions to a stepwise mass extinction event in the late Silurian oceans

(2019) Chelsie N. Bowman et al.   GEOLOGY

Productivity or preservation? The factors controlling the organic matter accumulation in the late Katian through Hirnantian Wufeng organic-rich shale, South China

(2019) Yangbo Lu et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

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

(2018) Caineng Zou 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

Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction

(2018) Theodore R. Them et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

(2018) Alexander J. Krause et al.   Nature Communications

Organic-matter-rich shales of China

(2018) Caineng Zou et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Thallium-isotopic compositions of euxinic sediments as a proxy for global manganese-oxide burial

(2017) Jeremy D. Owens et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2017) David S. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades

(2017) Sunke Schmidtko et al.   NATURE

The climatic significance of Late Ordovician-early Silurian black shales

(2017) A. Pohl et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

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

(2017) Qing Gong et al.   Scientific Reports

Constraining the rate of oceanic deoxygenation leading up to a Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE-2: ~94 Ma)

(2017) Chadlin M. Ostrander et al.   Science Advances

Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

(2016) James S. Crampton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine anoxia and delayed Earth system recovery after the end-Permian extinction

(2016) Kimberly V. Lau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2015) Lian Zhou et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction

(2014) Seth D. Burgess et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Towards an understanding of thallium isotope fractionation during adsorption to manganese oxides

(2013) Sune G. Nielsen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Graptoloid evolutionary rates track Ordovician–Silurian global climate change

(2013) ROGER A. COOPER et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

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

Gondwana from top to base in space and time

(2013) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

(2013) David A.T. Harper et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction

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

Oxidative scavenging of thallium by birnessite: Explanation for thallium enrichment and stable isotope fractionation in marine ferromanganese precipitates

(2012) Caroline L. Peacock et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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 Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian Glaciation

(2011) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World

(2009) Ralph F. Keeling et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

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

Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

(2008) J. A. Trotter et al.   SCIENCE