Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation

  • Xianguo Lang,
  • Bing Shen,
  • Yongbo Peng,
  • Shuhai Xiao,
  • Chuanming Zhou,
  • Huiming Bao,
  • Alan Jay Kaufman,
  • Kangjun Huang,
  • Peter W. Crockford,
  • Yonggang Liu,
  • Wenbo Tang,
  • Haoran Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05423-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The termination of the Marinoan snowball Earth event marks one of the most drastic transitions in Earth history, but the oceanic response remains unclear. Here, the authors’ integrated analysis demonstrates that the ocean experienced transient but widespread euxinia following this Snowball Earth event.