Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Mercury anomalies and the timing of biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction

  • Alyson M. Thibodeau,
  • Kathleen Ritterbush,
  • Joyce A. Yager,
  • A. Joshua West,
  • Yadira Ibarra,
  • David J. Bottjer,
  • William M. Berelson,
  • Bridget A. Bergquist,
  • Frank A. Corsetti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The association between Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) eruption volatiles and the end-Triassic mass extinction remains ambiguous. Here, the authors present mercury and palaeontological evidence from the same archive and show that significant biotic recovery did not begin until CAMP eruptions ceased.