Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "earth science"

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    • Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean 

      Gill, Benjamin C.; Lyons, Timothy W.; Young, Seth A.; Kump, Lee R.; Knoll, Andrew Herbert; Saltzman, Matthew R. (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
      Widespread anoxia in the ocean is frequently invoked as a primary driver of mass extinction as well as a long-term inhibitor of evolutionary radiation on early Earth. In recent biogeochemical studies it has been hypothesized ...

    • Medieval Irish Chronicles Reveal Persistent Volcanic Forcing of Severe Winter Cold Events, 431–1649 CE 

      Ludlow, Francis Michael; Stine, Alexander Robin; Leahy, Paul; Murphy, Enda; Mayewski, Paul A.; Taylor, David; Killen, James; Baillie, Michael G. L.; Hennessy, Mark; Kiely, Gerard (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      Explosive volcanism resulting in stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosol is a major driver of regional to global climatic variability on interannual and longer timescales. However, much of our knowledge of the climatic ...