Late Devonian Calculation Paper

In order to find evidence of the transition from fish to land animals, the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks. In 2004, they studied sedimentary rock on Ellesmere Island in Canada’s Arctic as they thought that the rocks there would be exposed and untouched by humans, which would be ideal for fossil excavations. They studied sedimentary rocks (limestone, sandstone, siltstone and shales) because these

Another rifting phase started in the early Jurassic around Pliensbachian or Toarcian (Chongzhi et al., 2013; Geoscience, 2014; Tindale, Newell, Keall, & Smith, 1998). Exmouth, Barrow, Dampier and Beagle Sub-basins were created until Middle Jurassic (He, 2002; Tortopoglu, 2015) and oceanic crust was laid down to form the Argo Abyssal Plain in Late Jurassic around 164-160 Ma during the Callovian to Oxfordian then followed by the Gascoyne and Cuvier Abyssal Plain in Early Cretaceous around 125 Ma (Fullerton, Sager, & Handschumacher, 1989; Müller, Mihut, & Baldwin, 1998). Passive margin was established in North West Shelf. Rifting phase of the basin transformed into sagging phase post breakup thermal subsidence when Gondwana breakup took place during Valanginian early Cretaceous around 134Ma. During the Campanian late Cretaceous, rifting along the Australian southern margin triggered the basin inversions and wrench reactivation of basin structures on NW Shelf. These movements arose the Barrow Island above sea level and formed Novara, Resolution and Exmouth Plateau Arch in Barrow, Dampier Sub-Basins and Investigator Sub-Basin (Figure 1) (Longley et al., 2002; Sinhabaedya,

Glaciation that are widespread can be identified based on the subglacial tillite, which is a thick layer of sediments that settle down beneath glaciers or ice caps. On top of this subglacial tillite layer is deposited marine carbonate, also known as cap carbonate. Based on their paleolatitude designated by glacial sediments’ paleomagnetism, it can be determined that these deposits are from equator region. The interaction between two types of sediments, marine (like carbonate) and subgacially deposited sediments, indicate that the glaciers had approached marine coastlines.

These Paleozoic rocks are steeply plunging sandstones and siltstones, with a little event of limestone at Lilydale - the Early Devonian Lilydale Limestone. The Silurian rocks were stored in profound water, while the Devonian rocks, which are exceptionally fossiliferous, appear to have been stored in shallower water. These Silurian and Devonian rocks were folded into a progression of anticlines

The cause of the Late Devonian mass extinction near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary remains uncertain. Anomalies of stable isotope values have been observed at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary commonly, indicating the abrupt changes of environments during the crisis. These changes include marine anoxia possibly triggered by land plant evolutions, global cooling, and global warming probably induced by multiple bolide impacts. In this study, the variations of isotope compositions are summarized to investigate the possible major causes of F-F mass extinction.

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During the Ordovician Age, the Earth had milder climates than before. The air in the atmosphere was warm and wet. Sea levels kept rising but leveled off in the middle of the period. At the beginning of this time, it was very hot, marine waters estimated around 113 degrees fahrenheit. Over time, the ocean became cooler and the temperature became comparable to today’s equatorial waters.

The author believes that dinosaurs' fossils in the polar area show they had to be endotherms in order to be able to live in that cold weather but the lecturer believes that the polar area were much warmer than today years ago and dinosaurs could have just migrate to lower latitudes during winter or just hibernate.

The Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction in the Late Devonian has often been considered as one of the major 5 extinctions through time. Conflicting interpretations for the cause of this extinction exist, but the role of volcanism is becoming increasingly appealing due to recent advances in radioisotope dating. New K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Viluy traps in Siberia suggest multiphase emplacement of the Viluy traps with an early phase likely contributing to the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction. Other work supports this idea of multiphase emplacement. Changes in earth systems during the late Devonian support the argument for the role of volcanism as a root in the destruction of multiple marine habitats during the Late Devonian. One explanation for the Frasnian-Famennian extinction involves an initial pulse of Viluy Trap volcanism which lead to elevated levels in the atmosphere, marine anoxia and ultimately extinction.

(1987), the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is located in-between Ediacaran Fauna, which is found somewhere between 620-700 million years ago and trilobites, such as the fallotospid group. This creates a period ranging between 30-50 million years in which we can define the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, making it difficult to determine an accurate timeframe (Morris, 1987). Biomineralization is seen as another key indicator of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, this has recently been identified as occurring around 570 million years ago. Kerr (1993) addresses the recent understanding of the Cambrian explosion, which is believed to have occurred simultaneously with the presence of hard skeletal parts. Globally, it is seen that Ediacaran Fauna has been well preserved despite being soft bodied. This has given a good understanding on metazoan evolution (Morris, 1987). Evolution rates of metazoan started to become evaluated with higher precision geochronology. Ultimately, this resulted in a better understanding of Ediacaran Fauna, leading to the belief that the lack of Ediacaran Fauna during the Cambrian, compared to its presence in the Precambrian was due to its continuous evolution, rather than the sudden disappearance due to an event (Bowring and Erwin,

At the end of the Carboniferous Period the North Sea basin was a land area, and the earliest Permian deposits were terrestrial. A series of marine incursions occurred during the later Permian, but true open-sea conditions seldom if ever prevailed. Each marine incursion led to an evaporite cycle, and at the end of the Permian the North Sea basin was again a

The Precambrian era does not have a previous era.But the era after the Precambrian was the Paleozoic. The Precambrian era was from 4.8 to 4.5 million years ago with the paleozoic era before it and then the Mesozoic era after. The time periods in the paleozoic era were Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous, and Permian.The precambrian era did not have a previous Geologic era. The precambrian era had different periods which are Proterozoic, Archaean, and Hadean my major climate was the the ice age.my main geologic period was formation of earth and life for an example plants.The continents that the precambrian era had were pangia, animals that lived in the geologic era was waptia Dickinsonia protozoa

In Mesozoic era, there were only two continents present in the world. Mesozoic era’s climate compares to the Paleozoic era is more uniform and there were no trace of glacial isotopes observed in that period. That is because of the

The phenology of vertebrates was greatly altered by the mass extinctions and catastrophes that have occurred in history and still have an effect on vertebrates today. The main hypothesis for the global climate change following mass extinctions, particularly the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPg), is black carbon spread throughout the globe and altered solar radiation to create a system of global cooling (Kaiho et al., 2016). The cooling of the Earth’s temperature created a sudden drop in precipitation and a 50-60% decrease in sunlight following the impact of the asteroid (Kaiho et al., 2016). Research shows that following the impact of the KPg extinction precipitation has substantially decreased and depends on the latitude (Kaiho 2016). The Late Ordovician mass extinction was the first of the “Big Five” and can be clearly connected with climate change (Finnegan et al., 2012). The Late Ordovician mass extinction can be explained by the climactic common cause hypothesis, which states that climate cooling has a direct influence on extinction rates by forcing tropical taxa to live in climates that did not match their niche (Finnegan et al., 2012). In a research study done on the effects of climate change in the Late Ordovician, patterns of thermal tolerance range indicators show cooling and habitat loss as an important driver

When examining the influence and impacts of volcanic eruptions upon the earth’s climate system we have to consider occurrences both in the present and in the past. It has been noted by McGuire et al. that “Volcanic activity and environmental change have been linked during recent times and in the geological record.” (2002:88) With thousands of volcanic events having transpired since the Archean, there is an abundance of evidence to support the theory that volcanoes have impacted our climate for over 2.5 Billion years. In particular, I will be looking at examples from the Permian era, where “large basaltic flood eruptions have been associated with mass extinctions and the most voluminous explosive super eruptions have been held responsible for initiating the episodes of severe global cooling known as volcanic winters” (Rampino 1992, 1993a cited by McGuire et al 2002:88) and I will also be looking at instances from the more recent Holocene. We are able to study their impacts through various scientific means (such as examining northern and southern hemisphere ice cores), and are able to explore the control they have had upon our climate in the preceding years and how they have influenced it today. It is also necessary to explore equally the spatial and temporal scales of volcanic eruptions and their controlling factors, to determine their effects upon the earth’s climate and how they can affect it.