Everything you need to know about Mass Extinction, Sea Level Rise and Amplification

2014, Abrupt Climate Change, Anoxic Event, Antarctic Amplification, Anthropocene, Arctic Amplification, Chemistry, Cretaceous, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Geomorphology, Jurrasic, Mass Extinction, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Oceanography, Oxygen, Paleoclimatology, Permafrost, Permian, Polar Amplification, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, Seismicity, Triassic, Volcanology1 Comment

Wikipedia: A flood basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Flood basalt provinces are often called traps, which derives from the characteristic stairstep morphology of many associated landscapes. Related Greenland ice sheet collapse, triggered ancient sea…

Peter Ward: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps

2013, Anoxic Event, Cretaceous, Dead Zones, Global, Hydrosphere, Jurrasic, Lecture, Marine Life, Mass Extinction, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Region, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, TriassicLeave a comment

Brown Bag Lecture Series; Center for Student Engagement & Leadership; and Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement Apr. 11, 2013: In honor of Earth Month: Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., is a paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington. Ward specializes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (the one that killed the dinosaurs), the…

The Late Triassic Extinction, Persistent Photic Zone Euxinia, and Rising Sea Levels

Atmosphere, Biosphere, Climate Proxies, Cretaceous, Cryosphere, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Jurrasic, Methane (CH4), Ocean Currents, Ocean Stratification, Oceanography, Oxygen, Paleoclimatology, Science Talk, Sea Level Rise, Study, Temperature Reconstruction, Triassic, VolcanologyLeave a comment

Elevated pCO2 leading to Late Triassic extinction, persistent photic zone euxinia, and rising sea levels Caroline M.B. Jaraula, Kliti Grice, Richard J. Twitchett, Michael E. Böttcher, Pierre LeMetayer, Apratim G. Dastidar and L. Felipe Opazo doi:10.1130/G34183.1 Abstract The Late Triassic mass extinction event is the most severe global warming-related crisis to have affected important extant…