Bentonite geochronology, marine geochemistry, and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE)

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Thompson, Cara K., Kah, Linda C., Astini, Ricardo Alfredo, Bowring, Samuel A., Buchwaldt, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Argentina; Environmental Change; Geochronology; K-Bentonite; Middle Ordovician; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; San Juan; Argentine; Table Head; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/52203

Attribution of Ordovician climate forcing to explosive volcanism and the potential global importance of volcanism in Ordovician biodiversification suggest the necessity of evaluating the relationships between K-bentonite deposition and increasingly high-resolution records of marine biogeochemical ch...