Cycles of ∼32.5 My and ∼26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over the last 260 My: Connections between geological and astronomical cycles
Michael R. Rampino, K. Caldeira, Sedelia Rodriguez
Topics & Concepts
Flood basaltExtinction eventGeologyAnoxic watersBasaltVolcanismLarge igneous provinceEarth sciencePaleontologyVolcanoRadiometric datingRadiogenic nuclideOceanographyExtinction (optical mineralogy)PhanerozoicGeochemistryCenozoicStructural basinMantle (geology)MagmatismBiological dispersalSociologyPopulationTectonicsDemographyGeological and Geochemical AnalysisGeology and Paleoclimatology Researchearthquake and tectonic studies