Search Results - "Young, Seth A"
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Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-03-2011)“…A rise in atmospheric O₂ has been linked to the Cambrian explosion of life. For the plankton and animal radiation that began some 40 million yr later and…”
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Microbial life at −13 °C in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-12-2012)“…The permanent ice cover of Lake Vida (Antarctica) encapsulates an extreme cryogenic brine ecosystem (−13 °C; salinity, 200). This aphotic ecosystem is anoxic…”
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Geochemical Records Reveal Protracted and Differential Marine Redox Change Associated With Late Ordovician Climate and Mass Extinctions
Published in AGU advances (01-02-2022)“…The Ordovician (Hirnantian; 445 Ma) hosts the second most severe mass extinction in Earth history, coinciding with Gondwanan glaciation and increased…”
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Expansion of Reducing Marine Environments During the Ireviken Biogeochemical Event: Evidence From the Altajme Core, Gotland, Sweden
Published in Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology (01-02-2023)“…New δ34Spy (pyrite) and δ34SCAS (carbonate‐associated sulfate) across the Llandovery‐Wenlock boundary (∼432 Ma) provide evidence for the expansion of reduced…”
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Trans-Atlantic application of the Baltic Middle and Upper Ordovician carbon isotope zonation
Published in Estonian journal of earth sciences (2015)“…Application of the recently introduced Baltic δ^sup 13^C isotope zonation to a composite North American Darriwilian through Hirnantian succession shows that in…”
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Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification
Published in Nature geoscience (01-11-2023)“…Marine biodiversity increased markedly during the Ordovician Period (~487–443 million years ago). Some intervals within the Ordovician were associated with…”
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Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?
Published in Geobiology (01-05-2023)“…Fluctuations in marine oxygen concentrations have been invoked as a primary driver for changes in biodiversity throughout Earth history. Expansions in reducing…”
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Constraining reducing conditions in the Prague Basin during the late Silurian Lau/Kozlowskii extinction event
Published in Journal of the Geological Society (04-03-2024)“…The Silurian was marked by repeated extinctions, carbon cycle volatility, and significant intervals of climatic change. The most notable of these events were…”
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Middle–Late Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) decoupling of global sulfur and carbon cycles: Isotopic evidence from eastern and southern Laurentia
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-09-2016)“…Middle–Late Ordovician sequences from the Appalachian Basin and Arbuckle Mountain regions of North America were analyzed for carbonate-associated sulfate…”
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Constraining oceanic oxygenation during the Shuram excursion in South China using thallium isotopes
Published in Geobiology (01-05-2020)“…Ediacaran sediments record an unusual global carbon cycle perturbation that has been linked to widespread oceanic oxygenation, the Shuram negative C isotope…”
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Reactions of hydrothermal solutions with organic matter in Paleoproterozoic black shales at Talvivaara, Finland: Evidence from multiple sulfur isotopes
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-04-2013)“…Stable isotopic studies of Archean–Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks older than 2.4Ga have documented large mass-anomalous fractionations of sulfur isotopes…”
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Did changes in atmospheric CO2 coincide with latest Ordovician glacial–interglacial cycles?
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-10-2010)“…The Late Ordovician Hirnantian Stage (44million years ago) was one of three time periods during the past half billion years in which large continental glaciers…”
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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean
Published in Nature (London) (06-01-2011)“…Oxygen shortage in the ancient oceans It has been suggested that the Cambrian ocean was oxygen deficient, but physical evidence for widespread anoxia has been…”
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Rapid marine oxygen variability: Driver of the Late Ordovician mass extinction
Published in Science advances (16-11-2022)“…The timing and connections between global cooling, marine redox conditions, and biotic turnover are underconstrained for the Late Ordovician. The second most…”
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Strontium and carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Llandovery (Early Silurian): Implications for tectonics and weathering
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-10-2010)“…A high-resolution 87Sr/ 86Sr curve and paired δ 13C carbonate-organic data set is generated for the Llandovery Series from the Ikla drill core in Estonia. A δ…”
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Iron cycling in the anoxic cryo-ecosystem of Antarctic Lake Vida
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-07-2017)“…Iron redox cycling in metal-rich, hypersaline, anoxic brines plays a central role in the biogeochemical evolution of life on Earth, and similar brines with the…”
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Geochemical evidence for expansion of marine euxinia during an early Silurian (Llandovery–Wenlock boundary) mass extinction
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-05-2019)“…•First multiproxy paleoredox data set spanning the early Silurian Ireviken event.•Parallel excursions of sulfur and carbon isotopes from carbonates in…”
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Coupled biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy at Lanna, Sweden: A key section for the Floian–lower Darriwilian interval (Lower–Middle Ordovician)
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (01-04-2023)“…The Lanna area in the province of Närke, south-central Sweden, hosts a succession of cool-water carbonate strata that are largely devoid of tectonic and…”
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Progressive marine oxygenation and climatic cooling at the height of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Published in Global and planetary change (01-08-2023)“…The oxygen content of ancient seawater has been hypothesized to be a major controlling factor for biodiversity throughout Earth's history. The Great Ordovician…”
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Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for globally extensive marine euxinia on continental margins and in epicontinental seas during the Devonian-Carboniferous Hangenberg Crisis
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-07-2023)“…The end-Devonian Hangenberg Crisis was one of the biggest Phanerozoic mass extinctions. However, the mechanism(s) that triggered this event is still debated…”
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