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Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event
A natural global warming event that took place 56 million years ago was triggered almost entirely by volcanic eruptions that occurred as Greenland separated from Europe during the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to new research. Paleontology News … Continue reading
Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event
A natural global warming event that took place 56 million years ago was triggered almost entirely by volcanic eruptions that occurred as Greenland separated from Europe during the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to new research. Geology News … Continue reading
Carbon sequestration in an expanded lake system through the Toarcian oceanic anoxic occasion
Nature Geoscience 10, 129 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2871 Authors: Weimu Xu, Micha Ruhl, Hugh&#one hundred sixty;A. Jenkyns, Stephen&#one hundred sixty;K. Hesselbo, James&#one hundred sixty;C. Riding, David Selby, S.&#one hundred sixty;David&#one hundred sixty;A. Naafs, Johan&#one hundred sixty;W.&#one hundred sixty;T. Weijers, Richard&#one hundred sixty;A. … Continue reading
Study breathes new life into P.A billion yr previous ‘Great Oxidation Event’
Study breathes new life into P.O billion yr previous ‘Great Oxidation Event’ Research led by the University of St Andrews and revealed yesterday in Nature – offers new perception into how life advanced alongside modifications within the chemistry of Earth’s … Continue reading
Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event
Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
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Extraterrestrial impact preceded ancient global warming event
A comet strike may have triggered the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a rapid warming of Earth caused by an accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide 56 million years ago, which offers analogs to global warming today. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
94 million-year-old climate change event holds clues for future
A major climate event millions of years ago that caused substantial change to the ocean?s ecological systems may hold clues as to how the Earth will respond to future climate change, a researcher said. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
How the event that killed off the dinosaurs wiped out life in Antarctica
Cretaceous-Paleogene clay layer (gray) in the Geulhemmergroeve tunnels in the Netherlands. Finger is on the actual K?Pg boundary. The Cretaceous?Paleogene mass extinction 66m years ago was the most recent of five similar crises to have devastated life on Earth over … Continue reading
Volcanic event caused ice age during Jurassic Period
Pioneering new research has shed new light on the causes behind an ‘ice-age’ that took place on Earth around 170 million years ago. An international team of experts, including researchers from the Camborne School of Mines, have found evidence of … Continue reading
EU ‘must intervene’ in event of death penalty for marines
IMG class=hide alt=”EU ‘must intervene’ in event of death penalty for marines” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wpid-ed9e36d3672520c2021102a241de52005.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, January 14 – The European Union (EU) could not fail to intervene in the event of a request for the death penalty against two … Continue reading