The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

RH Cowie, P Bouchet, B Fontaine - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

[HTML][HTML] Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

CN Waters, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, SD Turner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …

[HTML][HTML] 非常规油气沉积学: 内涵与展望

邱振, 邹才能 - 沉积学报, 2020 - 119.78.100.143
随着非常规油气资源工业化勘探开发的快速发展, 非常规油气地质学理论体系逐步建立,
迫切需要创新构建非常规油气沉积学理论. 通过简要概述非常规油气沉积学的基本内涵 …

[HTML][HTML] On the causes of mass extinctions

DPG Bond, SE Grasby - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

[图书][B] Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology

GJ Retallack - 2008 - books.google.com
It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

[HTML][HTML] Rare earth elements in sedimentary phosphate deposits: solution to the global REE crisis?

P Emsbo, PI McLaughlin, GN Breit, EA du Bray… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
The critical role of rare earth elements (REEs), particularly heavy REEs (HREEs), in high-
tech industries has created a surge in demand that is quickly outstripping known global …

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

C Zou, Z Qiu, SW Poulton, D Dong, H Wang… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME, ca. 445 Ma) was the first of the “Big
Five” Phanerozoic extinction events and comprised two extinction pulses. Proposed kill …

Timing and patterns of the great Ordovician biodiversification event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: perspectives from South China

Y Deng, J Fan, S Zhang, X Fang, Z Chen, Y Shi… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The early Paleozoic sediments document two major biological events: the Great Ordovician
Biodiversification Event (GOBE) and Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME). Many …

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

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …