A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation
The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive glaciation potentially at elevated CO2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as large isotope anomalies and a devastating extinction event. Ice-sheet volumes claimed to be twice those of the Last Glacial M...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:6848045 2023-06-11T04:12:49+02:00 A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation Ghienne, Jean-François Desrochers, André Vandenbroucke, Thijs Achab, Aicha Asselin, Ester Dabard, Marie-Pierre Farley, Claude Loi, Alfredo Paris, Florentin Wickson, Steven Veizer, Jan 2014 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6848045 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6848045 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5485 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6848045/file/6853496 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6848045 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6848045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5485 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6848045/file/6853496 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess NATURE COMMUNICATIONS ISSN: 2041-1723 Earth and Environmental Sciences EARLY SILURIAN GLACIATION SEA-LEVEL CHANGE MASS EXTINCTION ANTI-ATLAS ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE ANTICOSTI ISLAND HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE-CHANGE MOROCCO journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5485 2023-05-10T22:29:38Z The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive glaciation potentially at elevated CO2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as large isotope anomalies and a devastating extinction event. Ice-sheet volumes claimed to be twice those of the Last Glacial Maximum paradoxically coincided with oceans as warm as today. Here we argue that some of these remarkable claims arise from undersampling of incomplete geological sections that led to apparent temporal correlations within the relatively coarse resolution capability of Palaeozoic biochronostratigraphy. We examine exceptionally complete sedimentary records from two, low and high, palaeolatitude settings. Their correlation framework reveals a Cenozoic-style scenario including three main glacial cycles and higher-order phenomena. This necessitates revision of mechanisms for the end-Ordovician events, as the first extinction is tied to an early phase of melting, not to initial cooling, and the largest delta C-13 excursion occurs during final deglaciation, not at the glacial apex. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Ghent University Academic Bibliography Nature Communications 5 1 |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences EARLY SILURIAN GLACIATION SEA-LEVEL CHANGE MASS EXTINCTION ANTI-ATLAS ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE ANTICOSTI ISLAND HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE-CHANGE MOROCCO Ghienne, Jean-François Desrochers, André Vandenbroucke, Thijs Achab, Aicha Asselin, Ester Dabard, Marie-Pierre Farley, Claude Loi, Alfredo Paris, Florentin Wickson, Steven Veizer, Jan A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences EARLY SILURIAN GLACIATION SEA-LEVEL CHANGE MASS EXTINCTION ANTI-ATLAS ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE ANTICOSTI ISLAND HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE-CHANGE MOROCCO |
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The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive glaciation potentially at elevated CO2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as large isotope anomalies and a devastating extinction event. Ice-sheet volumes claimed to be twice those of the Last Glacial Maximum paradoxically coincided with oceans as warm as today. Here we argue that some of these remarkable claims arise from undersampling of incomplete geological sections that led to apparent temporal correlations within the relatively coarse resolution capability of Palaeozoic biochronostratigraphy. We examine exceptionally complete sedimentary records from two, low and high, palaeolatitude settings. Their correlation framework reveals a Cenozoic-style scenario including three main glacial cycles and higher-order phenomena. This necessitates revision of mechanisms for the end-Ordovician events, as the first extinction is tied to an early phase of melting, not to initial cooling, and the largest delta C-13 excursion occurs during final deglaciation, not at the glacial apex. |
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Ghienne, Jean-François Desrochers, André Vandenbroucke, Thijs Achab, Aicha Asselin, Ester Dabard, Marie-Pierre Farley, Claude Loi, Alfredo Paris, Florentin Wickson, Steven Veizer, Jan |
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A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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A Cenozoic-style scenario for the end-Ordovician glaciation |
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