References Flashcards
(19 cards)
Extinction (Shen and Zhang, 2017)
Permian was the worst extinction event with 95% marine and 75% terrestrial loss
Extinction (P.G. Bond, 2020)
1st GW and 2nd pulse volcanism mya for Ordovician
Extinction (Wignall and Bond, 2008)
(F-F) Frasnian Famenmian event in Devonian
Extinction (Saunders and Reichow, 2009)
5x100km2 Siberia in flood basalt
Extinction (The Guardian, 2022)
Cretaceous tsunami 30,000 x bigger than Boxing Day
Snow/slush (Brittanica, 2024)
Snowball def, Proterozoic Eon, at least 2 extreme cooling events
Snow/slush (Cowen’s history of life, 2019)
-Slushball def
-Slushball habitability - photosynthetic organisms
Snow/slush (Courtney-Davis, 2024)
Quartz veins geochronology dating - ev of snowball
Snow/slush (Voigt et al, 2011)
-Cooling attributed to atmo C02 rise and less solar luminosity
-Ice-albedo feedback (sim)
Snow/slush (Hoffman, 2002)
Snow habitability - prokaryotic organisms/bacteria
Snow/slush (Micheels and Montenari, 2008)
Snow temp -70 at poles, -45 everywhere else
Anthropocene (L.Chua, 2019)
“Age of mankind”
Anthropocene (Mahaswa, 2021)
Methane from rice paddies altering biodiversity
Anthropocene (Greenly, 2024)
39% atmo C02 increase since 1750
Anthropocene (Heyd, 2022)
Radioactive isotopes in ice cores, marker for human influence
Flight (Norbert, 2007)
Evo of flight in animals has been long debated, with different hypotheses suggested for their origins
Flight (Flegr, 2023)
Insect wings preadapted and developed from exoskeletal extensions
Flight (Pittman, 2022)
Enhanced upstroke for birds, rely on shoulder muscles, sig step
Flight (Anderson, 2020)
Bats are a quarter of all mammalian species
