Ordovician and Silurian sea–water chemistry, sea level, and climate: a synopsis

A Munnecke, M Calner, DAT Harper… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
Following the Cambrian Explosion and the appearance in the fossil record of most animal
phyla associated with a range of new body plans, the Ordovician and Silurian periods …

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the 'Ordovician Revolution': a review

TJ Algeo, PJ Marenco, MR Saltzman - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …

[PDF][PDF] Carbon isotope stratigraphy

MR Saltzman, E Thomas, FM Gradstein - The geologic time scale, 2012 - academia.edu
Variations in the 13C/12C value of total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the world's
oceans through time have been documented through stratigraphic study of marine …

The great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): the palaeoecological dimension

T Servais, AW Owen, DAT Harper, B Kröger… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
The 'Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'(GOBE) saw a spectacular increase in marine
biodiversity at all taxonomic levels largely within the phyla established much earlier during …

Middle and Upper Ordovician carbon isotope chemostratigraphy in Baltoscandia: a correlation standard and clues to environmental history

L Ainsaar, D Kaljo, T Martma, T Meidla… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Baltoscandian epeiric sea was characterised by relatively slow but continuous
carbonate deposition from the Middle Ordovician up to the Silurian. Relatively good …

Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

Y Zhang, R Zhan, Y Zhen, Z Wang, W Yuan… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
In this chapter, starting with a brief review of the research history and current status in the
studies of the Ordovician chronostratigraphy in China, the subdivision of the Ordovician …

The end-Ordovician glaciation and the Hirnantian Stage: a global review and questions about Late Ordovician event stratigraphy

A Delabroye, M Vecoli - Earth-Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a global review of Hirnantian event stratigraphy. The Hirnantian GSSP
in south China is tentatively correlated with latest Ordovician strata from the peri …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Ordovician of South China

A Munnecke, Y Zhang, X Liu, J Cheng - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
About 500 samples from 11 Ordovician sections in South China have been analysed for
their δ13Ccarb composition. Four sections are located in the Yangtze platform region, the …

The middle Darriwilian (Ordovician) δ13C excursion (MDICE) discovered in the Yangtze Platform succession in China: implications of its first recorded occurrences …

B Schmitz, SM Bergström… - Journal of the Geological …, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
The middle Darriwilian δ13C excursion (MDICE), one of the least known of the Ordovician
δ13C excursions, has previously been recorded only from the Middle Ordovician of …