Frontiers of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

KW Huntington, SV Petersen - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Carbonate minerals contain stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen with different masses
whose abundances and bond arrangement are governed by thermodynamics. The clumped …

Flood basalts and mass extinctions

ME Clapham, PR Renne - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Flood basalts were Earth's largest volcanic episodes that, along with related intrusions, were
often emplaced rapidly and coincided with environmental disruption: oceanic anoxic events …

The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

CJ Sprain, PR Renne, L Vanderkluysen, K Pande… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Late Cretaceous records of environmental change suggest that Deccan Traps (DT)
volcanism contributed to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) ecosystem crisis …

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

TR Lyson, IM Miller, AD Bercovici, K Weissenburger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We report a time-calibrated stratigraphic section in Colorado that contains unusually
complete fossils of mammals, reptiles, and plants and elucidates the drivers and tempo of …

Calibration of chron C29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana

CJ Sprain, PR Renne, WA Clemens… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary marks one of the most
important biotic turnover events in Earth history. Yet, despite decades of study, the causes of …

A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates

JR Kelson, KW Huntington, DO Breecker… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil carbonates are important paleoclimate archives, but interpretations of their isotopic
compositions (δ 18 O, δ 13 C, and Δ 47) are hampered by uncertainty in the annual timing of …

Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics

KW Huntington, AR Lechler - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Reconstructing the thermal history of minerals and fluids in continental environments is a
cornerstone of tectonics research. Paleotemperature constraints from carbonate clumped …

High elevation of Jiaolai Basin during the Late Cretaceous: Implication for the coastal mountains along the East Asian margin

L Zhang, C Wang, K Cao, Q Wang, J Tan… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
A large body of evidence suggests that there were extensive coastal mountains along the
East Asian margin during the Late Cretaceous. However, current knowledge of the paleo …

Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China

Y Gao, DE Ibarra, JKC Rugenstein, J Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
From the latest Cretaceous (late Campanian to Maastrichtian,~ 75–66 Ma) to the earliest
Paleogene, fluctuations in greenhouse climate, inferred primarily from marine sediments …