A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction

A nutrient control on expanded anoxia and global cooling during the Late Ordovician mass extinction

Phosphorus recycling played a critical role in driving the Late Ordovician mass extinction through ocean euxinia, and in the initiation of the Hirnantian glaciation, according to geochemical analyses of marine rocks from China and global biogeochemical modelling.

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Main Authors: Zhen Qiu, Caineng Zou, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Yijun Xiong, Huifei Tao, Bin Lu, Hanlin Liu, Wenjiao Xiao, Simon W. Poulton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00412-x

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00412-x

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