ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Continental flood basalts drive Phanerozoic extinctions.
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- Identifying biotic and abiotic roles in marine clade extinction.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Transitions between persistent climate-carbon regimes coincide with elevated Phanerozoic biosphere vulnerability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Fungal proliferation before and after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in North America.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Limited long-term cooling effects of Pangaean flood basalt weathering.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Lineages of Fractal Genera Comprise the 88-Million-Year Steel Evolutionary Spine of the Ecosphere.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Recurring volcanic winters during the latest Cretaceous: Sulfur and fluorine budgets of Deccan Traps lavas.Science advances · 2023Article
- Continental flood basalts do not drive later Phanerozoic extinctions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Reply to Henehan and Witts: Continental flood basalts drive extinctions after the mid-Mesozoic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The Cenomanian/Turonian boundary in light of new developments in terrestrial palynology.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Refinements of the geological timescale driven by the increasing precision and accuracy of radiometric dating have revealed an apparent correlation between large igneous provinces (LIPs) and intervals of Phanerozoic faunal turnover that has been much discussed at a qualitative level. However, the extent to which such correlations are likely to occur by chance has yet to be quantitatively tested, and other kill mechanisms have been suggested for many mass extinctions. Here, we show that the degree of temporal correlation between continental LIPs and faunal turnover in the Phanerozoic is unlikely to occur by chance, suggesting a causal relationship linking extinctions and continental flood basalts. The relationship is stronger for LIPs with higher estimated eruptive rates and for stage boundaries with higher extinction magnitudes. This suggests LIP magma degassing as a primary kill mechanism for mass extinctions and other intervals of faunal turnover, which may be related to [Formula: see text], Cl, and F release. Our results suggest continental LIPs as a major, direct driver of extinctions throughout the Phanerozoic.
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