期刊
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
卷 511, 期 -, 页码 1-11出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.033
关键词
Framboidal pyrite; Redox conditions; Black shale; Mass extinction; Ordovician-Silurian boundary
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41602119, 41690131, 41572327]
- Scientific Research and Technological Development Program of CNPC [2016B-0302-01]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2014CB239000]
The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) was a severe biocrisis during the Phanerozoic and in this extinction, trilobites, brachiopods, mollusks, graptolites, conodonts and other types suffered severe mortality, and 85% of marine invertebrate species were eliminated. The potential cause of this mass extinction remains unclear, although glaciation and marine anoxia have received the greatest attention. Herein, we present findings on pyrite morphology, pyritic sulfur isotopic composition and total organic carbon content (TOC) to analyze the evolution of redox conditions across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Yangtze area of South China. Our results show that long-term euxinic conditions interrupted by episodic dysoxic/oxic events occurred from the upper Katian stage to the lower Rhuddanian stage. The two extinction pulses of LOME were coincident with euxinic conditions, suggesting that marine euxinia may have been the main cause of this mass extinction event.
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