ArticleNature communications2017
Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction.
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- Correlation of sub-centennial-scale pulses of initial Central Atlantic Magmatic Province lavas and the end-Triassic extinctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Role of volcanism and impact heating in mass extinction climate shifts.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Carbon cycle perturbations and environmental change of the middle permian and Late Triassic Paleo-Antarctic circle.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- New U-Pb geochronology for the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, critical reevaluation of high-precision ages and their impact on the end-Triassic extinction event.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Dying in the Sun: Direct evidence for elevated UV-B radiation at the end-Permian mass extinction.Science advances · 2023Article
- Continental flood basalts drive Phanerozoic extinctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Bioindicators of severe ocean acidification are absent from the end-Permian mass extinction.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived trigger, and large igneous province magmatism is often implicated. However, large igneous provinces are long-lived compared to mass extinctions. Therefore, if large igneous provinces are an effective trigger, a subinterval of magmatism must be responsible for driving deleterious environmental effects. The onset of Earth's most severe extinction, the end-Permian, coincided with an abrupt change in the emplacement style of the contemporaneous Siberian Traps large igneous province, from dominantly flood lavas to sill intrusions. Here we identify the initial emplacement pulse of laterally extensive sills as the critical deadly interval. Heat from these sills exposed untapped volatile-fertile sediments to contact metamorphism, likely liberating the massive greenhouse gas volumes needed to drive extinction. These observations suggest that large igneous provinces characterized by sill complexes are more likely to trigger catastrophic global environmental change than their flood basalt- and/or dike-dominated counterparts.Although the mass end-Permian extinction is linked to large igneous provinces, its trigger remains unclear. Here, the authors propose that the abrupt change from flood lavas to sills resulted in the heating of sediments and led to the release of large-scale greenhouse gases to drive the end-Permian extinction.
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