The end-Permian mass extinction: A rapid volcanic CO 2 and CH 4-climatic catastrophe

Chemical Geology

Volumn 322-323, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-144

  Brand, Uwe ^a   Posenato, Renato ^b   Came, Rosemarie ^c   Affek, Hagit ^d   Angiolini, Lucia ^e   Azmy, Karem ^f   Farabegoli, Enzo ^g  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental erosion; End Permian mass extinction; Extreme seawater temperatures; Primary bLMC geochemistry strontium, oxygen, carbon and clumped isotopes, REE

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; END-PERMIAN; GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LATE PERMIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; PRIMARY BLMC GEOCHEMISTRY-STRONTIUM, OXYGEN, CARBON AND CLUMPED ISOTOPES, REE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEAWATER CHEMISTRY; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; SIBERIAN TRAPS; SULFATE AEROSOLS; SURFACE OCEAN; THERMOGENIC METHANE; TIME OF CRISIS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; DISASTERS; GAS EMISSIONS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; ISOTOPES; METHANE; OXYGEN; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM; VOLCANOES; WATER QUALITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BRACHIOPOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; MASS EXTINCTION; METHANE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERMIAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84864072179     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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