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Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level
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Schoene, B.
Guex, J.
Bartolini, A.
Schaltegger, Urs
Blackburn, T. J.
Published in Geology. 2010, vol. 38, no. 5, p. 387-390
Abstract New high-precision U/Pb geochronology from volcanic ashes shows that the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and end-Triassic biological crisis from two independent marine stratigraphic sections correlate with the onset of terrestrial flood volcanism in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province to <150 ka. This narrows the correlation between volcanism and mass extinction by an order of magnitude for any such catastrophe in Earth history. We also show that a concomitant drop and rise in sea level and negative delta(13)C spike in the very latest Triassic occurred locally in <290 ka. Such rapid sea-level fluctuations on a global scale require that global cooling and glaciation were closely associated with the end-Triassic extinction and potentially driven by Central Atlantic Magmatic Province volcanism
Keywords Atlantic magmatic province — Carbon-isotope stratigraphy — Jurassic boundary — Triassic/jurassic boundary — Age constraints — Zircon — Record — Synchrony — Event — Differentiation
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Faculté des sciences / Section des sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement / Département des sciences de la Terre
Research group Isotope Geochemistry, Geochronology and Thermochronology
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(ISO format) 		SCHOENE, B. et al. Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level. In: Geology, 2010, vol. 38, n° 5, p. 387-390. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:21549

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