Lessons from Earth’s Deep Past: Climate Change and Ocean Acidification 200 Million Years Ago
Understanding ongoing climate change is a major scientific challenge. Climate events in the deep history of Earth can inform us about the possible extremes of greenhouse conditions, rates and magnitude of long-term climate change, and their consequences to the ocean and the biosphere. The end of the...
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| Format: | Book Part |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2019
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| Online Access: | http://real.mtak.hu/133481/ http://real.mtak.hu/133481/1/P%C3%A1lfy_Kocsis_Kov%C3%A1cs_Karancz_200_million_years_ago_WITH_figures_REAL.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_3 |
| Summary: | Understanding ongoing climate change is a major scientific challenge. Climate events in the deep history of Earth can inform us about the possible extremes of greenhouse conditions, rates and magnitude of long-term climate change, and their consequences to the ocean and the biosphere. The end of the Triassic period was a time of greenhouse warming, driven by volcanic emission of CO2 and other gases from eruptions in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. The end-Triassic mass extinction is the biotic response to rapid environmental changes triggered by volcanism. Ocean acidification was likely a major factor driving the selective extinction of calcifying marine organisms. |
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