A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction

2012/04/06 by Emma U. Hammarlund, Tais W. Dahl, David A.T. Harper +11 · 15 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.024

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• The influence of Late Ordovician volcanism on the marine environment based on high-resolution mercury data from South China
• Dynamic sulfur and carbon cycling through the end-Ordovician extinction revealed by paired sulfate–pyrite δ34S
• Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian
• Elevated marine productivity triggered nitrogen limitation on the Yangtze Platform (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition
• Limitation of fixed nitrogen and deepening of the carbonate-compensation depth through the Hirnantian at Dob's Linn, Scotland
• Seawater sources of Hg enrichment in Ordovician-Silurian boundary strata, South China
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• The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) and end-Guadalupian (Middle Permian) mass-extinction events compared
• Changes in marine productivity and redox conditions during the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation
• Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during the Late Ordovician–early Silurian detected using uranium isotopes of marine carbonates
• Euxinia caused the Late Ordovician extinction: Evidence from pyrite morphology and pyritic sulfur isotopic composition in the Yangtze area, South China
• Marine redox conditions during deposition of Late Ordovician and Early Silurian organic-rich mudrocks in the Siljan ring district, central Sweden
• Identifying the most surprising victims of mass extinction events: an example using Late Ordovician brachiopods
• Late Ordovician mass extinction [wikipedia]