| Series | Special paper / Geological Society of America ; 505
Special papers (Geological Society of America) 505. ^A20279 |
| Contents |
Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / David P.G. Bond and Paul B. Wignall -- Deccan volcanism, the Chicxulub impact, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction : Coincidence? Cause and effect? / Gerta Keller -- Effects of Deccan volcanism on paleoenvironment and planktic foraminifera : a global survey / Jahnavi Punekar, Paula Mateo, and Gerta Keller -- Plants and floral change at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary : three decades on / Robert A. Spicer and Margaret E. Collinson -- The early Danian hyperthermal event at Boltysh (Ukraine) : relation to Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary events / Iain Gilmour, David Jolley, David Kemp, Simon Kelley, Mabs Gilmour, Rob Daly, and Mike Widdowson -- Plant macrofossils from Boltysh crater provide a window into early Cenozoic vegetation / Sergei V. Vikulin, Nadia Bystriakova, Harald Schneider, and David Jolley -- Deccan volcanic eruptions and their impact on flora : Palynological evidence / Bandana Samant and Dhananjay M. Mohabey -- Vertebrate fauna from the Deccan volcanic province : response to volcanic activity / Guntupalli V.R. Prasad and Ashok Sahni -- What the dinosaur record says about extinction scenarios / J. David Archibald -- The Pliensbachian-Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction : a North American perspective / Andrew H. Caruthers, Paul L. Smith, and Darren R. Gröcke -- Volcanism of the Central Atlantic magmatic province as the trigger of environmental and biotic changes around the Triassic-Jurassic boundary / József Pálfy and Ádám T. Kocsis -- Climatic reversals related to the Central Atlantic magmatic province caused the end-Triassic biotic crisis : evidence from continental strata in Poland / Grzegorz Pieńkowski, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, and Pawel Brański -- An earth system approach to understanding the end-Ordovician (Hirnantian) mass extinction / Howard A. Armstrong and David A.T. Harper -- |
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Volcanism and environmental effects: A review of the embedded time scales of flood basalt volcanism with special emphasis on dramatically short magmatic pulses / Vincent Courtillot and Frédéric Fluteau -- Emplacement characteristics, time scales, and volcanic gas release rates of continental flood basalt eruptions on Earth / S. Self, A. Schmidt, and T.A. Mather -- Modeling the carbon-sulfate interplays in climate changes related to the emplacement of continental flood basalts / Mickaël Mussard, Guillaume Le Hir, Frédéric Fluteau, Vincent Lefebvre, and Yves Goddéris -- Atmospheric halogen and acid rains during the main phase of Deccan eruptions : magnetic and mineral evidence / Eric Font, Sébastien Fabre, Anne Nédélec, Thierry Adatte, Gerta Keller, Cristina Veiga-Pires, Jorge Ponte, José Mirão, Hassan Khozyem, and Jorge E. Spangenberg -- |
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Impacts and environmental effects: Impact volcanism and mass extinctions / Adrian P. Jones -- The role of giant comets in mass extinctions / W.M. Napier -- Implications of the centaurs, Neptune-crossers, and Edgeworth-Kuiper belt for terrestrial catastrophism / Duncan Steel -- Calendar-year dating of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core from the early sixth century using historical, ion and particulate data / Dallas H. Abbott, Dee Breger, Pierre E. Biscaye, and Robert A. Juhl -- What caused terrestrial dust loading and climate downturns between A.D. 533 and 540? / Dallas H. Abbott, Dee Breger, Pierre E. Biscaye, John A. Barron, Robert A. Juhl, and Patrick McCafferty -- The public impact of impacts : how the media play in the mass extinction debates / Steve Miller. |
| Abstract |
"Comprises articles stemming from the March 2013 international conference at London's Natural History Museum. Researchers across geological, geophysical, and biological disciplines present key results from research concerning the causes of mass extinction events"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2014015429 |
| ISBN | 9780813725055 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0813725054 (pbk.) |
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