ArticleNature communications2020
Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.
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- Regional postdeforestation weathering feedback drove diachronous C-S cycle perturbations during the end-Permian crisis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of global climate change during the five major mass extinctions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Sulfur isotope anomalies in coal combustion: Applications to the present and early Earth environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth.Science advances · 2023Article
- Different controls on the Hg spikes linked the two pulses of the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Volcanic eruptions are thought to be a key driver of rapid climate perturbations over geological time, such as global cooling, global warming, and changes in ocean chemistry. However, identification of stratospheric volcanic eruptions in the geological record and their causal link to the mass extinction events during the past 540 million years remains challenging. Here we report unexpected, large mass-independent sulphur isotopic compositions of pyrite with Δ
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