Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Mid-Cretaceous marine Os isotope evidence for heterogeneous cause of oceanic anoxic events

  • Hironao Matsumoto,
  • Rodolfo Coccioni,
  • Fabrizio Frontalini,
  • Kotaro Shirai,
  • Luigi Jovane,
  • Ricardo Trindade,
  • Jairo F. Savian,
  • Junichiro Kuroda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27817-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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“Mid-Cretaceous experienced a series of drastic environmental perturbations called Oceanic Anoxic Events. Here, the authors asses high-resolution Os isotopic records which indicate that most of these events were associated with massive submarine volcanic episodes, but some minor ones were not.”