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Impacts that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions
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New open access paper about mass extinctions. Pankhurst, M.J., Stevenson, C.J. and Coldwell, B.C., 2021. Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions. Journal of the Geological Society. 179, jgs2021-055, 1 December 2021 Yours,-
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Clam fossils help calibrate phylogenic calculations
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Clam fossils help scientists find errors in evolutionary tree calculations by Louise Lerner, University of Chicago, PhysOrg, Decemebr 2, 2021 Tha paywalled paper is: Nicholas M. A. Crouch et al, Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2021). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2178 Yours, Paul H. -
Which brachiopods went extinct during mass extinction event's
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Hi there... Elliot here. Could someone name some species of brachiopods please that became extinct during mass extinction event's. As I'm struggling to find any references. Thank you very much. Elliot.- 6 replies
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Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure
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Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs Hamish Johnston, Physics World, February 24, 2021, https://physicsworld.com/a/iridium-in-undersea-crater-confirms-asteroid-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs/ Tha paper is: Goderis, S., Sato, H., Ferrière, L, et al. 2021, Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure Science Advances 24 Feb 2021: Vol. 7, no. 9, eabe3647 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabe3647 There are arguments that seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact did a superfrack job on the Deccan volcanoes and magnified their eruptions. Go see; Richards, M.A., Alvarez, W., Self, S., Karlstrom, L., Renne, P.R., Manga, M., Sprain, C.J., Smit, J., Vanderkluysen, L. and Gibson, S.A., 2015. Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the impact. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(11-12), pp.1507-1520. http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/3289/1/Gibson bul gsa.pdf http://pages.uoregon.edu/leif/resources/papers/GSAB_2015_Richards.pdf https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abstract/127/1112/1507/126064 Commentary on flood basalts and mass extinctions: Ernst, R.E. and Youbi, N., 2017. How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 478, pp.30-52. Link, Ernst and Youbi (2017), at bottom of page at http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/downloads http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/sites/default/files2/Ernst and Youbi 2017 PPP.PDF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018217302857 Yours, Paul H.-
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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
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Astronomers: A comet fragment, not an asteroid, killed off the dinosaurs Jupiter's gravity pushed comet toward Sun; comet was ripped apart by tidal forces. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, February 15, 2021 https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/astronomers-a-comet-fragment-not-an-asteroid-killed-off-the-dinosaurs/ The open access paper is: Siraj, A. and Loeb, A., Breakup of a Long-Period Comet as the Origin of the Dinosaur Extinction. Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 3803 (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/SLD.pdf Keep warm and safe out there Paul H. -
Super Computer Analysis of Species Helps Define Mass Extinctions
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Looking for hidden mass extinctions in the fossil record. Big data comes to paleontology https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00117-1- 2 replies
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Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis
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Below is an interesting paper, with PDF files online, about the role of contact metamorphism of evaporites and organic rich strata by the Siberian Traps and the end-Permian extinctions. Svensen, H., Planke, S., Polozov, A.G., Schmidbauer, N., Corfu, F., Podladchikov, Y.Y. and Jamtveit, B., 2009. Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(3-4), pp.490-500. http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Svensen_EPSL_2009.pdf https://henriksvensen.wordpress.com/publicationspapers/ https://henriksvensen.wordpress.com/page/2/ Some related papers are: Burgess, S.D., Muirhead, J.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2017. Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications, 8(1), p.164. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318793382_Initial_pulse_of_Siberian_Traps_sills_as_the_trigger_of_the_end-Permian_mass_extinction https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muirhead_D https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/113600/s41467-017-00083-9.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Polozov, A.G., Svensen, H.H., Planke, S., Grishina, S.N., Fristad, K.E. and Jerram, D.A., 2016. The basalt pipes of the Tunguska Basin (Siberia, Russia): High temperature processes and volatile degassing into the end-Permian atmosphere. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441, pp.51-64. Svensen, H.H., Frolov, S., Akhmanov, G.G., Polozov, A.G., Jerram, D.A., Shiganova, O.V., Melnikov, N.V., Iyer, K. and Planke, S., 2018. Sills and gas generation in the Siberian Traps. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2130), p.20170080. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327404155_Sills_and_gas_generation_in_the_Siberian_Traps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127383/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Sills-and-gas-generation-in-the-Siberian-Traps.-Svensen-Frolov/6d0e86fcd2beea7d96c4e15240e50650c2ac235a Rampino, M.R., Rodriguez, S., Baransky, E. and Cai, Y., 2017. Global nickel anomaly links Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian mass extinction. Scientific reports, 7(1), p.12416. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622041/ http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Siberian trap eruptions.pdf Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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The "Great Expectations Syndrome" and Mass Extinctions
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Below is an interesting paper about mass extinctions. Racki, G. 2012. The Alvarez impact theory of mass extinction; limits to its applicability and the "great expectations syndrome". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4): 681-702. https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20110058.pdf https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110058.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239739714_The_Alvarez_impact_theory_of_mass_extinction_limits_to_its_applicability_and_the_great_expectations_syndrome https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grzegorz_Racki http://agro.icm.edu.pl/agro/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-d1182c96-9ae1-48af-858c-a2f844a3d830/c/app20110058_681.pdf Other papers are: Racki, G., 2015. Catastrophism and neocatastrophism versus cosmic hazard: Ager versus Alvarez; Cuvier versus Laplace. Palaios, 30(6), pp. 432-434. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.894.7456&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279238673_Catastrophism_and_neocatastrophism_versus_cosmic_hazard_Ager_versus_Alvarez_Cuvier_versus_Laplace Racki, G., 2014. Dmitri Sobolev and other forgotten forerunners of mass extinction science and volcanic catastrophism. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 59(4), pp. 1006-1008. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-c20648d9-6f1c-454b-b6ce-c2fd0eb7a061/c/app20141004_1006_1008.pdf https://www.infona.pl/resource/bwmeta1.element.agro-c20648d9-6f1c-454b-b6ce-c2fd0eb7a061 Yours, Paul H.-
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