Critical intervals in earth history

Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series

Volumn , Issue 9781402092114, 2011, Pages 293-306

  Wiese, Frank ^a   Reitner, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977094314     PISSN: 13884360     EISSN: 1871756X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9212-1_62     Document Type: Chapter

References (104)

1. Algeo, T. J., and Scheckler, S. E., 1998. Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic event. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 353, 113-130.
2. Alvarez, L. W., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F., and Michel, H. V., 1980. Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-tertiary extinction. Science, 208, 1095-1108.
3. Anbar, A. D., Duan, Y., Lyons, T. W., Arnold, G. L., Kendall, B., Creaser, R. A., Kaufman, A. J., Gordon, G. W., Scott, C., Garvin, J., and Buick, R., 2007. A whiff of oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event? Science, 317, 1903-1906.
4. Bailey, J. V., Joye, S., Kalanetra, K. M., Flood, B. E., and Corsetti, F. A., 2007. Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites. Nature, 445, 198-201.
5. Bekker, A., Holland, H. D., Wang, P.-L., Rumble,III, D., Stein, H. J., Hannah, J. L., Coetzee, L. L., and Beukes, N. J., 2004. Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature, 427, 117-120.
6. Becker, R. T., and Kirchgasser, A. T., 2007. Devonian events and correlations. The Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 278, 1-280.
7. 2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 1302-1305.
8. Berner, R. A., 1998. The carbon cycle and carbon dioxide over Phanerozoic time: the role of land plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 353, 75-82.
9. Blair, J. A., and Hedges, B., 2004. Molecular clocks do not support the Cambrian Explosion. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22, 387-390.
10. Bond, D. P. G., and Wignall, P. B., 2008. The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 263, 107-118.
11. Brennan, S. T., Lowenstein, T. K., and Horita, J., 2004. Seawater chemistry and the advent of biocalcification. Geology, 32, 473-476.
12. Bristow, T. F., and Kennedy, M. J., 2008. Carbon isotope excursions and the oxidant budget of the Ediacaran atmosphere and ocean. Geology, 36, 863-866.
13. Buatois, L. A., Mangano, M. G., Genise, J. F., and Taylor, T. N., 1998. The ichnologic record of the continental invertebrate invasion; evolutionary trends in environmental expansion, ecospace utilization, and behavioral complexity. Palaios, 13, 217-240.
14. Buick, R., 2008. When did oxygenic photosynthesis evolve? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 2731-2743.
15. Butterfield, N. J., Knoll, A. H., and Sweet, K., 1990. A bangiophyte red alga from the Proterozoic of Arctic Canada. Science, 250, 104-107.
16. Canfield, D. E., 1999. A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry. Nature, 396, 450-453.
17. Canfield, D. E., Poulton, S. W., and Narbonne, G. M., 2009. Late Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science, 315, 92-95.
18. Claeys, P., Kyte, F. T., Herbosch, A., and Casier, J.-G., 1996. Geochemistry of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in Belgium: Mass extinction, anoxic oceans and microtektite layer, but not much iridium? In Ryder, G., Fastovsky, D., and Gartner, S. (eds.), The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History. Geological Society of America Special Paper 307, pp. 491-504.
19. Debrenne, F., Rozanov, A. Y., and Webers, G. F., 1984. Upper Cambrian Archaeocyatha from Antarctica. Geological Magazine, 121, 291-299.
20. DiMichele, W. A., and Hook, A. W., 1992. Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems. In Behrensmeyer, A. K., Damuth, J. D., DiMichele, W. A., Potts, R., Sues, H. D., and Wing, S. L. (eds.), Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time. Evolutionary Paleoecology of terrestrial Plants and Animals. Chicago, IL: The University Press of Chicago, pp. 205-326.
21. Elewa, A. M. T. (ed.), 2008. Mass Extinction. Berlin: Springer.
22. Falkowski, P. G., and Godfrey, L. V., 2009. Electrons, life and the evolution of Earths’s oxygen cycle. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 2705-2716.
23. Farquhar, J., and Wing, B. A., 2003. Multiple sulfur isotopes and the evolution of the atmosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 213, 1-13.
24. 2 and the delayed biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 252, 164-175.
25. Frei, R., Gaucher, C., Poulton, S. W., and Canfield, D. E., 2009. Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotops. Nature, 461, 250-254.
26. Gensel, P. G., 2008. The earliest land plants. Annual Review ofEcol-ogy, Evolution, and Systematics, 39, 459-477.
27. Gensel, P. G., and Edwards, D., 2001. Plants Invade the Land -Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press.
28. Goldblatt, C., Lenton, T. M., and Watson, A. J., 2006. Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation. Nature, 443, 683-686.
29. Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., and Smith, A. G., 2004. A Geologic Time Scale 2004. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Graham, L. E., Cook, M. E., and Busse, J. S., 2000. The origin of plants: Body plan changes contributing to a major evolutionary radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97, 4535-4540.
31. Grice, K., Cao, C., Love, G. D., Böttcher, M. E., Twitchett, R. J., Grosjean, E., Summons, R. E., Turgeon, S. C., Dunning, W., and Jin, Y., 2004. Photic zone euxinia during the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event. Science, 307, 706-706.
32. Grotzinger, J. P., Watters, W. A., and Knoll, A. H., 2000. Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Pro-terozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Paleobiology, 26, 334-359.
33. Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Kaufman, A. J., Schröder, S., Gutzmer, J., Wing, B., Baker, M. A., Bekker, A., Jin, Q., Kim, S.-T., and Farquhar, J., 2009. Reconstructing Earth’s surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition. Geology, 37, 399-402.
34. Hallam, A., 2005. Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes ofMass Extinctions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
35. Hallam, A., and Wignall, P. B., 1997. Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
36. 39Ar dating of the Araguainha impact structure, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Mete-oritics, 30, 227-233.
37. Haq, B. U., and Schutter, S. R., 2008. A chronology of Paleozoic sea-level changes. Science, 322, 64-68.
38. Hardie, L. A., 2003. Secular variations in Precambrian seawater chemistry and the timing ofPrecambrian aragonite seas and calcite seas. Geology, 31, 785-788.
39. Hart, M. B. (ed.), 1996. Biotic recovery from mass extinction events. Geological Society of London, Special Publication, 102, 1-392.
40. Heckman, D. S., Geiser, D. M., Eidell, B. R., Stauffer, R. L., Kardos, N. L., and Hedges, S. B., 2001. Molecular evidence for the early colonization of land by fungi and plants. Science, 293, 1129-1133.
41. Hedges, S. B., Blair, J. E., Venturi, M. L., and Shoe, J. L., 2004. A molecular timescale of eukaryote evolution and the rise of complex multicellular life. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 4, doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-2.
42. Hesselbo, S. P., Christopher, A., McRoberts, C. A., and Palfy, J., 2007. Triassic-Jurassic boundary events: problems, progress, possibilities. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 244, 1-424.
43. Hinrichs, K.-U., and Boetius, A., 2002. The anaerobic oxidation of methane: new insights in microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. In Wefer, G., Billett, D., Hebbeln, D., Jorgensen, B. B., Schlüter, M., and van Weering, T. (ed.), Ocean Margin Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 457-477.
44. Hoffman, P. F., and Schrag, D. P., 2002. The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change. TerraNova, 14, 129-155.
45. Holland, H. D., 2006. The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361, 903-915.
46. Hou, X.-G., Aldridge, R. J., Bergström, J., Siveter, D. J., and Feng, X.-H., 2004. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjang. China: Blackwell Science Ltd, p 233.
47. Hua, H., Pratt, B. R., and Zhang, L.-Y., 2003. Borings in Cloudina shells: complex predator-prey dynamics in the terminal Neoproterozoic. Palaios, 18, 454-459.
48. Jensen, S., 2003. The Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian trace fossil record; patterns, problems and perspectives. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 43, 219-228.
49. Jeram, A. J., Selden, P. A., and Edwards, D., 1990. Land animals in the silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England. Science, 250, 658-661.
50. Kappler, A., Pasquero, C., Konhauser, K. O., and Newman, D. K., 2005. Deposition of banded iron formations by anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria. Geology, 33, 865-868.
51. Kaufman, A. J., Johnston, D. T., Farquhar, J., Masterson, A. L., Lyons, T. W., Bates, S., Anbar, A. D., Arnold, G. L., Garvin, J., and Buick, R., 2007. Late Archean biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution. Science, 317, 1900-1903.
52. Keller, G., Adatte, T., Berner, Z., Harting, M., Baum, G., Prauss, M., Tantawy, A., and Stueben, D., 2007. Chicxulub impact predates K-T boundary: new evidence from Brazos, Texas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 255, 339-356.
53. Kelley, S., 2007. The geochronology of large igneous provinces, terrestrial impact craters, and their relationship to mass extinctions on Earth. Journal of the Geological Society, 164, 923-936.
54. 2. Science, 308, 1730-1732.
55. Kirschvink, J. L., and Raub, T. D., 2003. A methane fuse for the Cambrian explosion: carbon cycles and true polar wander. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, 335, 65-78.
56. Klein, C., 2005. Some Precambrian banded iron-formations (BIFs) from around the world: Their age, geologic setting, mineralogy, metamorphism, geochemistry, and origins. American Mineralogist, 90, 1473-1499.
57. Konhauser, K. O., Pecoits, E., Lalonde, S. V., Papineau, D., Nisbet, E. G., Barley, M. E., Arndt, N. T., Zahnle, K., and Kamber, B. S., 2009. Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event. Nature, 458, 750-753.
58. Kopp, R. E., Kirschvink, J. L., Hilburn, I. A., andNash, C. Z., 2005. The Paleoproterozoic snowball earth: a climate disaster triggered by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 11131-11136.
59. Krug, A. Z., and Patzkowsky, M. E., 2004. Rapid recovery from the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 17605-17610.
60. Kump, L. R., Pavlov, A., and Arthur, M. A., 2005. Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia. Geology, 33, 397-400.
61. Levinton, J. S., 2008. The Cambrian explosion: How do we use the evidence. BioScience, 58, 855-864.
62. MacLeod, N., Rawson, P. F., Forey, P. L., Banner, F. T., Boudagher-Fadel, M. K., Bown, R. R., Burnett, J. A., Chambers, P., Culver, S., Evans, S. E., Jeffrey, C., Kaminski, M. A., Lord, A. R., Milner, A. C., Milner, A. R., Morris, N., Owen, E., Rosen, B. R., Smith, A. B., Taylor, P. D., Urquhart, E., and Young, J. R., 1997. The cretaceous-tertiary biotic transition. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 154, 265-292.
63. Marriott, S. B., Morrissey, L. B., and Hillier, R. D., 2009. Trace fossil assemblages in Upper Silurian tuff beds: evidence of biodiversity in the Old Red Sandstone of southwest Wales, UK. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 274, 160-172.
64. Marshall, C. R., 2006. Explaining the Cambrian “Explosion” of animals. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 34, 355-84.
65. McGhee, G. R., 1996. The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press.
66. McMenamin, M. A. S., 1986. The Garden ofEdiacara. New York: Columbia University Press.
67. Melott, A. L., Lieberman, B. S., Laird, C. M., Martin, L. D., Medvedev, M. V., Thomas, B. C., Cannizzo, J. K., Gehrels, N., and Jackman, C. H., 2004. Did a gamma-ray burst initiate the late Ordovician mass extinction? International Journal of Astrobiol-ogy, 3, arXiv:astro-ph/0309415v3.
68. Meyer, K. M., Kump, L. R., and Ridgwell, A., 2008. Biogeochemical controls on photic-zone euxinia during the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, 36, 747-750.
69. Miller, K. G., Kominz, M. A., Browning, J. V., Wright, J. D., Mountain, G. S., and Katz, M. E., 2005. The phanerozoic record of global sea-level change. Science, 310, 1293-1289.
70. Neuweiler, F., Turner, E. C., and Burdige, D. J., 2009. Early Neoproterozoic origin of the metazoan clade recorded in carbonate rock texture. Geology, 37, 475-478.
71. Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H., and Anders, M. H., 1987. New Early Jurassic tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetra-pod extinction event. Science, 237, 1025-1029.
72. Over, D. J., Morrow, J. R., and Wignall, P. B., 2005. Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic biotic and climatic events: towards an integrated approach. Developments in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, 20, 1-337.
73. Peters, S. E., 2008. Environmental determinants of extinction selectivity in the fossil record. Nature, 454, 626-629.
74. Peterson, K. J., Cotton, J. A., Gehling, J. G., and Pisani, D., 2008. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2233.
75. Petrychenko, O. Y., Peryt, T. M., and Chechel, E. I., 2005. Early Cambrian seawater chemistry from fluid inclusions in halite from Siberian evaporites. Chemical Geology, 219, 149-161.
76. Retallack, G. J., 2005. Soils and global change in the carbon cycle. In Drever, J. I. (ed.), Surface and Ground Water, Weathering, and Soils. Treatise on Geochemisty, Vol. 5, pp. 581-606.
77. Retallack, G. J., and Feakes, C. R., 1987. Trace fossil evidence for Late Ordovician animals on land. Science, 235, 61-63.
78. Ryder, G., Fastovsky, D. E., and Gartner, S., 1996. The Cretaceous-Tertiary event and other catastrophes in earth history. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 307, 1-569.
79. Ryskin, G., 2003. Methane-driven oceanic eruptions and mass extinctions. Geology, 31, 741-744.
80. Scott, C., Lyons, T. W., Bekker, A., Shen, Y., Poulton, S. W., Chu, X., and Anbar, A. D., 2008. Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean. Nature, 452, 456-459.
81. Seilacher, A., and Pflüger, F., 1994. From biomats to benthic agriculture: a biohistoric revolution. In Krumbein, W. E. (ed.), Biostabilization ofSediments. Oldenburg: BIS Verlag, pp. 97-105.
82. Şengör, A. M. C., and Atayman, S., 2009. The Permian extinction and the Tethys: an exercise in global geology. The Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 448, 1-85.
83. Sheehan, P., 2001. The Late Ordovician mass extinction. Annual Review ofEarth and Planetary Sciences, 29, 331-364.
84. Shu, D., 2008. Cambrian explosion: birth of tree of animals. Gondwana Research, 14, 219-240.
85. Steemans, P., and Wellman, C. H., 2004. Miospores and the emergence of land plants. In Webby, B. D., Paris, F., Droser, M. L., and Percival, I. G. (eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Events. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 361-366.
86. Steiner, M., and Reitner, J., 2001. Evidence of organic structures in Ediacara-type fossils and associated microbial mats. Geology, 29, 1119-1122.
87. Tanner, L. H., Lucas, S. G., and Chapman, M. G., 2004. Assessing the record and causes of Late Triassic extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews, 65, 103-139.
88. Taylor, P. D. (ed.), 2004. Extinctions in the History of Life. New York: Cambridge University Press.
89. Taylor, T. N., Kerp, H., and Hass, H., 2005. Life history biology of early land plants: deciphering the gametophyte phase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States ofAmerica, 102, 5892-5897.
90. Twitchett, R. J., 2006. The paleoclimatology, paleoecology and paleoenvironmental analysis ofmass extinction events. Paleoge-ography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 232, 190-213.
91. Valentine, J. W., 2002. Prelude to the Cambrian explosion. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 30, 285-306.
92. Weissflog, L., Elansky, N. F., Kotte, K., Keppler, F., Pfennigsdorff, A., Lange, C. A., Putz, E., and Lisitsyna, L. V., 2008. Late Permian changes in condition of the atmosphere and environments caused by halogenated gases. Doklady Earth Sciences, 452, 291-295.
93. Wellman, C. H., 2004. Paleoecology and paleophytogeography of the Rhynie chert plants: Evidence from integrated analysis of in situ and dispersed spores. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271, 985-992.
94. Wellman, C. H., Osterloff, P. L., and Mohiuddin, U., 2003. Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature, 425, 282-285.
95. White, R. V., 2002. Earth’s biggest 'whodunnit’: unravelling the clues in the case of the end-Permian mass extinction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, 360, 2963-2985.
96. Wignall, P. B., 2001. Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews, 53, 1-33.
97. Wood, R. A., Grotzinger, J. P., and Dickson, J. A. D., 2002. Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science, 296, 2383-2386.
98. Wooldbridge, S. A., 2008. Mass extinctions past and present: a unifying hypothesis. Biogeosciences Discussion, 5, 2401-2423.
99. Xian-guang, H., Aldridge, R. J., Bergström, J., Sivetter, D. J., Siveter, D. J., and Xiang-hong, F., 2004. The Cambrian Fossils Of Chengjang, China. The Flowering Of Early Animal Life. Oxford: Blackwell.
100. Xiao, S., and Kaufman, A. J. (eds.), 2007. Neoproterozoic geobiology and paleobiology. Topics in Geobiology, 27, 300.
101. Xiao, S., Yuan, X., and Knoll, A. H., 2000. Eumetazoan fossils in terminal Proterozoic phosphorites? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97, 13684-13689.
102. 86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): links to volcanism and climate? Geology, 37, 951-954.
103. Zhuravlev, A.Y., and Riding, R. (eds.), 2001. The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation. New York: Columbia University Press.
104. Zhuravlev, A. Y., and Wood, R. A., 2008. Eve of biomineralization: controls on skeletal mineralogy. Geology, 36, 923-926.