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Global warming, ocean acidification and mass extinctions

Sofie L. wrote 6 months ago: On-going anthropogenic carbon emissions has reached levels 40% higher than pre-industrial ones in 17 … more →

Tags: end-Triassic mass extinction, Geology, Global Warming, major volcanic events, mass extinction events, natural hazards, anthropogenic emissions 2011, end-Permian mass extinction, ocean acidification

Everybody's talking about methane...

Sofie L. wrote 1 year ago: It actually started 16 years ago when Gerald R. Dickens and his colleagues published their paper on … more →

Tags: Palaeobotany, palynology, triassic, end-Triassic mass extinction, mass extinction events, Methane, mass extinction, end-Triassic, recovery

Large herbivorous dinosaurs sustained Mesozoic greenhouse climate through flatulence?

Sofie L. wrote 1 year ago: In our society today we are very much aware of the effects of greenhouse gases on the climate. Globa … more →

Tags: vertebrate palaeontology, end-Triassic mass extinction, major volcanic events, Jurassic, cretaceous, Dinosaurs, Methane, Global Warming, greenhouse climate

Mercury new culprit in end-Permian event?

Sofie L. wrote 1 year ago: In a new paper in Geology Sanei et al. (abstract) address the potential impact of mercury loading fr … more →

Tags: Geology, major volcanic events, end-Permian mass extinction, Mercury toxicity

End-Permian extinction interval lasted <200.000 years

Sofie L. wrote 1 year ago: Super-interesting news from Science express (abstract): High-precision U-Pb daiting of several well … more →

Tags: geochronology, end-Permian mass extinction, geochronology

End-Permian mass extinction: No problem for Parareptiles?

Sofie L. wrote 1 year ago: The end-Permian mass extinction event 250 million years ago was probably the most severe crisis in E … more →

Tags: vertebrate palaeontology, End-Permian, parareptiles

PNAS Paper Suggests Predation was Responsible for Crinoid Diversification during Mesozoic

Chronojourner wrote 3 years ago: Agaricocrinus splandens, a crinoid from the Mississippian Period A paper published Monday, Mar. 15, … more →

Tags: triassic, PNAS, population decline, adaptive radiation, crinoid, paleozoic, Mesozoic, echinoids


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