Major volcanic eruptions linked to the Late Ordovician mass extinction: Evidence from mercury enrichment and Hg isotopes
Dongping Hu, Menghan Li, Jiubin Chen, Qingyong Luo, Stephen E. Grasby, Tonggang Zhang, Shengliu Yuan, Yilun Xu, Stanley C. Finney, Lilin Sun, Yanan Shen
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Extinction eventOrdovicianPhanerozoicGeologyRodiniaMercury (programming language)Large igneous provinceLaurentiaBalticaTotal organic carbonIsotopes of carbonVolcanoPaleontologyEnvironmental chemistryChemistryCenozoicCratonMagmatismProgramming languageStructural basinSociologyBiological dispersalComputer sciencePopulationDemographyTectonicsMercury impact and mitigation studiesGeochemistry and Elemental AnalysisIsotope Analysis in Ecology