The life cycle of large igneous provinces

BA Black, L Karlstrom, TA Mather - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Extremely voluminous magmatic systems known as large igneous provinces (LIPs)
punctuate Earth's history, and the gases they release plausibly link large-scale geodynamic …

An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook, RE Merle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the products of exceptional magmatic events that played
important roles in tectonic plate reorganizations, environmental crises, energy resource …

Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas

S Callegaro, DR Baker, PR Renne, L Melluso… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Two events share the stage as main drivers of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction—
Deccan Traps volcanism, and an asteroid impact recorded by the Chicxulub crater. We …

Mercury linked to Deccan Traps volcanism, climate change and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

G Keller, P Mateo, J Monkenbusch, N Thibault… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) anomalies linked to Large Igneous Provinces (LIP) volcanism have been
identified in sediments across all five major mass extinctions in Earth's history. This study …

Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosion

EC Geyman, MM Douglas, JP Avouac, MP Lamb - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The rate of river migration affects the stability of Arctic infrastructure and communities, and
regulates the fluxes of carbon,, nutrients and sediment, to the oceans. However, predicting …

A Bayesian inversion for emissions and export productivity across the end-Cretaceous boundary

AA Cox, CB Keller - Science, 2023 - science.org
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by both the Chicxulub impact and the
ongoing emplacement of the Deccan Traps flood basalt province. To understand the …

Early Jurassic large igneous province carbon emissions constrained by sedimentary mercury

IM Fendley, J Frieling, TA Mather, M Ruhl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large igneous province eruptions and their carbon emissions often coincide with, and are
hypothesized to have driven, severe environmental perturbations in the geological past …

Cycles of~ 32.5 My and~ 26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over …

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, S Rodriguez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential temporal and causal connections among various geologic events have long been
discussed in the geological literature. More recently, signs of common periodicities in these …

The Anthropocene within the Geological Time Scale: a response to fundamental questions

J Zalasiewicz, MJ Head, CN Waters, SD Turner… - …, 2024 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The Anthropocene as a prospective new, ongoing series/epoch must be defensible against
all relevant concerns. We address the seven, still-relevant challenges posed to the …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain

V Gilabert, SJ Batenburg, I Arenillas, JA Arz - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Untangling the timing of the environmental effects of Deccan volcanism with respect to the
Chicxulub impact is instrumental to fully assessing the contributions of both to climate …