New insight into the Great Dying, Permian mass extinction

[Oxytropidoceras]

New insight into the Great Dying, University of Leeds, June 11, 2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-insight-great-dying.html

 

The open access paper is:

 

Jacopo Dal Corso, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Daoliang Chu, 

Robert J. Newton, Tamsin A. Mather, Wenchao Shu, 

Yuyang Wu, Jinnan Tong, and Paul B. Wignall (2020)

Permo-Triassic boundary carbon and mercury cycling 

linked to terrestrial ecosystem collapse.

Nature Communications 11, Article number: 2962

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16725-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16725-4

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16725-4.pdf

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[Owl_Roker]

Interesting read—thanks for sharing @Oxytropidoceras.

 

Not proud to admit that I hadn’t considered the collapse of the terrestrial ecosystems altering the chemistry of the oceans!

 

Robert

[Darbi]

Interesting! This might give us clues how topsoil erosion, expansion of dead zones along the coasts all over the world, ocean acidification, etc. affect the present-day ecosystem.