Volcanism of the central atlantic magmatic province as a potential driving force in the end-triassic mass extinction

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 136, Issue , 2003, Pages 255-267

  Pálfy, József ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014423057     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/136GM014     Document Type: Chapter

References (80)

1. Ash, S., Fossil plants and the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, in The beginning of the age of the dinosaurs, faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, edited by K. Padian, pp. 21-30, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986.
2. Baksi, A., Evaluation of radiometric ages for the central Atlantic magmatic province: Timing, duration, and possible migration of magmatic centers, in The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, edited by W.E. Hames, J.G. McHone, P.R. Renne and C. Ruppel, AGU, Washington, 2002, in press.
3. Beerling, D.J., and R.A. Berner, Biogeochemical constraints on the Triassic-Jurassic boundary carbon cycle event, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 2002, in press.
4. Benton, M.J., Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic extinctions among continental tetrapods: testing the pattern, in In the shadow of the dinosaurs, edited by N.C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues, pp. 366-397, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
5. Benton, M.J., Diversification and extinction in the history of life, Science, 268, 52-58, 1995.
6. Bown, P.R., Recent advances in Jurassic calcareous nannofossil research, in Advances in Jurassic Research, edited by A.C. Riccardi, pp. 55-66, Transtec Publications, Zurich, 1996.
7. Caplan, M.L., R.M. Bustin, and K.A. Grimm, Demise of a Devonian-Carboniferous carbonate ramp by eutrophication, Geology, 24, 715-718, 1996.
8. Carter, E.S., Evolutionary trends in latest Norian through Hettangian radiolarians from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Géobios, Mém. Spéc, 17, 111-119, 1994.
9. Carter, E.S., P.A. Whalen, and J. Guex, Biochronology and paleontology of Lower Jurassic (Hettangian and Sinemurian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Géol. Surv. Can. Bull., 496, 1-162, 1998.
10. Clark, D.L., Conodonts: the final fifty million years, in Paleobiology of conodonts, edited by R.J. Aldridge, pp. 165-174, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1987.
11. Coale, K.H., K.S. Johnson, S.E. Fitzwater, and 16 others, A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, Nature, 383, 495-501, 1996.
12. Cohen, A.S., and A.L. Coe, New geochemical evidence for the onset of volcanism in the Central Atlantic magmatic province and environmental change at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Geology, 30, 2002, in press.
13. Courtillot, V., Mass extinctions in the last 300 million years: One impact and seven flood basalts?, Isr. J. Earth Set, 43, 255-266, 1994.
14. Dagys, A.S., and A.A. Dagys, Global correlation of the terminal Triassic, in Recent Developments on Triassic Stratigraphy, edited by J. Guex and A. Baud, Mém. Géol. (Lausanne), 22, 25-34, 1994.
15. De Renzi, M., K. Budurov, and M. Sudar, The extinction of conodonts-in terms of discrete elements-at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Quad. Geol. lbérica, 20, 347-364, 1996.
16. Deckart, K., G. Féraud, and H. Bertrand, Age of Jurassic continental tholeiites of French Guyana, Surinam and Guinea: Implications for the initial opening of the Central Atlantic Ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 150, 205-220, 1997.
17. Dickens, R.G., J.R. O’Neil, D.K. Rea, and R.M. Owen, Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene, Paleoceanography, 10, 965-971, 1995.
18. Dunning, G.R., and J.P. Hodych, U/Pb zircon and baddeleyite ages for the Palisades and Gettysburg sills of the northeastern United States: Implications for the age of the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, Geology, 18, 795-798, 1990.
19. Encarnacion, J., T.H. Fleming, D.H. Elliot, and H. Eales, Syn chronous emplacement of Ferrar and Karoo dolerites and the early breakup ofGondwana, Geology, 24, 535-538, 1996.
20. Erwin, D.H., The end and the beginning: recoveries from mass extinctions, Trends Ecol. Evol, 13, 344-349, 1998.
21. Fowell, S.J., B. Cornet, and P.E. Olsen, Geologically rapid Late Triassic extinctions: Palynological evidence from the Newark Supergroup, in Pangea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics, and Sedimentation During Accretion, Zenith, and Breakup of a Supercontinent, edited by G.D. Klein, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., 288, 197-206, 1994.
22. Gallet, Y., J. Besse, L. Krystyn, H. Theveniaut, and J. Marcoux, Magnetostratigraphy of the Kavur Tepe Section (Southwestern Turkey)-A Magnetic Polarity Time-Scale for the Norian, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 117, pp, 443-456, 1993.
23. Gallet, Y., J. Besse, L. Krystyn, and J. Marcoux, Norian Magnetostratigraphy from the Scheiblkogel Section, Austria-Constraint on the Origin of the Antalya Nappes, Turkey, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 140, 113-122, 1996.
24. Gallet, Y., J. Besse, L. Krystyn, J. Marcoux, J. Guex, and H. Theveniaut, Magnetostratigraphy of the Kavaalani Section (Southwestern Turkey)-Consequence for the Origin of the Antalya Calcareous Nappes (Turkey) and for the Norian (Late Triassic) Magnetic Polarity Timescale, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2033-2036, 2000.
25. Gradstein, F.M., F.P. Agterberg, J.G. Ogg, J. Hardenbol, P. van Veen, J. Thierry, and Z. Huang, A Mesozoic time scale, J. Geophys. Res., B, 99, 24,051-24,074, 1994.
26. Hallam, A., The end-Triassic bivalve extinction event, Palaeo-geogr., Palaeoclimatol, Palaeoecol, 35, 1-44, 1981.
27. Hallam, A., Oxygen-restricted facies of the basal Jurassic of northwest Europe, Hist. Biol, 10, 247-57, 1995.
28. Hallam, A., Major bio-events in the Triassic and Jurassic, in Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic, edited by O.H. Walliser, pp. 265-283, Springer, Berlin, 1996.
29. Hallam, A., and P.B. Wignall, Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath, 320 pp., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997.
30. Hallam, A., and P.B. Wignall, Mass extinctions and sea-level changes, Earth-Sci. Rev., 48, 217-250, 1999.
31. Hames, W.E., P.R. Renne, and C. Ruppel, New evidence for geologically instantaneous emplacement of earliest Jurassic Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts on the North American margin, Geology, 28, 859-862, 2000.
32. Harland, W.B., A.V. Cox, P.G. Llewellyn, C.A.G. Pickton, A.G. Smith, and R. Walters, A Geologic Time Scale, 131 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982.
33. Harland, W.B., R.L. Armstrong, A.V. Cox, L.E. Craig, A.G. Smith, and D.G. Smith, A Geologic Time Scale 1989, 263 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
34. Harris, T.M., The fossil flora of Scoresby Sound East Greenland. Part 5: Stratigraphic relations of the plant beds, Medd. Grant, 112, 1-114, 1937.
35. Hesselbo, S.P., D.R. Gröcke, H.C. Jenkyns, C.J. Bjerrum, P. Farrimond, H.S. Morgans Bell, and O.R. Green, Massive dissociation of gas hydrate during a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event, Nature, 406, 392-395, 2000.
36. Hesselbo, S.P., Robinson, S.A., Surlyk, F., and Piasecki, S, Terrestrial and marine mass extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary synchronized with initiation of massive volcanism, Geology, 30, 2002, in press.
37. Hodych, J.P., and G.R. Dunning, Did the Manicouagan impact trigger end-of-Triassic mass extinction?, Geology, 20, 51-54, 1992.
38. Holser, W.T., M. Magaritz, and R.L. Ripperdan, Global isotopic events, in Global events and event stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic, edited by O.H. Walliser, pp. 63-88, Springer, Berlin, 1996.
39. Hori, R., Radiolarian biostratigryphy at the friassic/Jurassic period boundary in bedded cherts from the Inuyama area, central Japan, J. Geosci., Osaka City Univ., 35, 53-65, 1992.
40. Jones, C.E., H.C. Jenkyns, and S.P. Hesselbo, Strontium isotopes in Early Jurassic seawater, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 1285-1301, 1994.
41. Kent, D.V., and P.E. Olsen, Astronomically tuned geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Triassic, J. Geophys. Res., B, 104, 12831-12841, 1999.
42. Kent, D.V., P.E. Olsen, and W.K. Witte, Late Triassic-earliest Jurassic geomagnetic polarity sequence and paleolatitudes from drill cores in the Newark rift basin, eastern North America, J. Geophys. Res., B, 100, 14,965-14,998, 1995.
43. Kiessling, W., E. Fliigel, and J. Golonka, Paleoreef maps: Evaluation of a comprehensive database on Phanerozoic reefs, AAPGBull, 83, 1552-1587, 1999.
44. Kiessling, W., Paleoclimatic significance of Phanerozoic reefs, Geology, 29, 751-754, 2001.
45. 13-und 5l3C-evolution des triassischen Meerwassers: geochemische und stratigraphische Untersu-chungen an Conodonten und Brachiopoden, Bochum. Geol. Geotechn. Arb, 52, 1-171, 1999.
46. 13 depth profiles from paleosols across the Permian-Triassic boundary: Evidence for methane release, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 112, 1459-1472, 2000.
47. Kump, L.R., and M.A. Arthur, Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions: carbonates and organic matter, Chem. Geol, 161, 181-198, 1999.
48. Marzoli, A., P.R. Renne, E.M. Piccirillo, M. Ernesto, G. Bellieni, and A. De Min, Extensive 200-million-year-old continental flood basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, Science, 284, 616-618, 1999.
49. McElwain, J.C., D.J. Beerling, and F.I. Woodward, Fossil plants and global warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Science, 285, 1386-1390, 1999.
50. McHone, J.G., Volatile emissions of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province basalts: Mass assumptions and and environmental consequences, in The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, edited by W.E. Hames, J.G. McHone, P.R. Renne and C. Ruppel, AGU, Washington, 2002, in press.
51. McRoberts, C.A., C.R. Newton, and A. Alissanaz, End-Triassic bivalve extinction: Lombardian Alps, Italy, Hist. Biol, 9, 297-317, 1995.
52. McRoberts, C.A., Triassic bivalves and the initial marine Meso-zoic revolution: A role for predators?, Geology, 29, 359-362, 2001.
53. McRoberts, C.A., H. Furrer, and D.S. Jones, Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a Triassic-Jurassic boundary section from Western Austria based on palaeoecological and geochemical data, Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol, Palaeoecol, 136, 79-95, 1997.
54. Muttoni, G., D.V. Kent, P. Di Stefano, M. Gullo, A. Nicora, J. Tait, and W. Lowrie, Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Carnian/Norian boundary interval from the Pizzo Mondello section (Sicani Mountains, Sicily), Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol, Palaeoecol, 166, 383-399, 2001.
55. Olsen, P.E., Giant lava flows, mass extinctions, and mantle plumes, Science, 284, 604-605, 1999.
56. Olsen, P.E., and D.V. Kent, Long-period Milankovitch cycles from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of eastern North America and their implications for the calibration of the early Mesozoic time scale and the long-term behavior of the planets, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A, 357, 1761-1786, 1999.
57. Olsen, P.E., N.H. Shubin, and M.H. Anders, New Early Jurassic tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinction event, Science, 237, 1025-1029, 1987.
58. Olsen, P.E., R.W. Schlische, and M.S. Fedosh, 580 ky duration of the Early Jurassic flood basalt event in eastern North America estimated using Milankovitch cyclostratigraphy, in The Continental Jurassic, edited by M. Morales, Mus. North, Ariz. Bull, 60, 11-22, 1996.
59. Olsen, P.E., C. Koeberl, H. Huber, A. Montanari, S.J. Fowell, M. Et-Touhami, and D.V. Kent, The continental Triassic-Jurassic boundary in central Pangea: recent progress and preliminary report of an Ir anomaly, in Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, edited by C. Koeberl and K.G. MacLeod, Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Pap., 356, 2002a, in press.
60. Olsen, P.E., D.V. Kent, M. Et-Touhami, and J. Puffer, Cyclo-, magneto-, and biostratigraphic constraints on the duration of the CAMP event and its relationship to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, in The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, edited by W.E. Hames, J.G. McHone, P.R. Renne and C. Ruppel, AGU, Washington, 2002b, in press.
61. Orchard, M.J., J.P. Zonneveld, M.J. Johns, C.A. McRoberts, M.R. Sandy, E.T. Tozer, and G.G. Carrelli, Fossil succession and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic of Black Bear Ridge, northeast British Columbia, a GSSP prospect for the Carnian-Norian boundary, Albertiana, 25, 10-22, 2001.
62. Padian, K, What were the tempo and mode of evolutionary change in the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic?, in In the shadow of the dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic tetrapods, edited by N.C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues, pp. 401-407, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
63. Palfy, J., and P.L. Smith, Synchrony between Early Jurassic extinction, oceanic anoxic event, and the Karoo-Ferrar flood basalt volcanism, Geology, 28, 747-750, 2000.
64. Palfy, J., J.K. Mortensen, E.S. Carter, P.L. Smith, R.M. Friedman, and H.W. Tipper, Timing the end-Triassic mass extinction: First on land, then in the sea?, Geology, 28, 39-42, 2000a.
65. 39Ar time scale for the Jurassic, Can. J. Earth Sci., 37, 923-944, 2000b.
66. Pálfy, J., A. Demény, J. Haas, M. Hetényi, M. Orchard, and I. Veto, Carbon isotope anomaly and other geochemical changes at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary from a marine section in Hungary, Geology, 29, 1047-1050, 2001.
67. Rampino, M.R., and R.B. Stothers, Flood basalt volcanism during the last 250 million years, Science, 241, 663-667, 1988.
68. Renne, P.R., Z. Zichao, M.A. Richards, M.T. Black, and A.R. Basu, Synchrony and causal relations between Permian-Triassic boundary crises and Siberian flood volcanism, Science, 269, 1413-1416, 1995.
69. Sepkoski, J.J., Jr., Patterns of Phanerozoic extinction: a perspective from global data bases, in Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic, edited by O.H. Walliser, pp. 35-51, Springer, Berlin, 1996.
70. Shubin, N.H., and H.-D. Sues, Biogeography of early Mesozoic continental tetrapods, Paleobiology, 77, 214-230, 1991.
71. Signor, P.W., and J.H. Lipps, Sampling bias, gradual extinction patterns and catastrophes in the fossil record, in Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth, edited by L.T. Silver and P.H. Schultz, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., 190, 291-296, 1982.
72. Stanley, G.D., The history of early Mesozoic reef communities: a three step process, Palaios, 3, 170-183, 1988.
73. Swift, A., First record of conodonts from the late Triassic of Britain, Palaeontology, 32, 325-334, 1989.
74. Taylor, A.S., and A.C. Lasaga, The role of basalt weathering in the Sr isotope budget of the oceans, Chem. Geol., 161, 199-214, 1999.
75. Tekin, U.K., Biostratigraphy and systematics of late Middle to Late Triassic radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara region, Turkey, Geol.-Palaontol. Mitt. Innsbruck, Sonderband, 5, 1-296, 1999.
76. Tozer, E.T., One, two or three connecting links between Triassic and Jurassic ammonoids?, Nature, 232, 565-566, 1971.
77. Visscher, H., and W.A. Brugman, Ranges of selected palyno-morphs in the Alpine Triassic of Europe, Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 34, 115-128, 1981.
78. Ward, P.D., J.W. Haggart, E.S. Carter, D. Wilbur, H.W. Tipper, and T. Evans, Sudden productivity collapse associated with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass extinction, Science, 292,1148-1151,2001.
79. Weedon, G.P., H.C. Jenkyns, A.L. Coe, and S.P. Hesselbo, Astronomical calibration of the Jurassic time-scale from cyclostrati-graphy in British mudrock formations, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A, 357, 1787-1813, 1999.
80. Wignall, P.B., Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions, Earth-Sci. Rev., 53, 1-33, 2001.