An extremely brief end Ordovician mass extinction linked to abrupt onset of glaciation

The end Ordovician mass extinction (EOME) was the second most severe biotic crisis in Phanerozoic, and has been widely linked to a major glaciation. However, robust geochronology of this interval is still lacking. Here we present four successive high-precision zircon U–Pb dates by isotope dilution t...

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Main Authors: Ming-Xing Ling, Ren-Bin Zhan, Guang-Xu Wang, Yi Wang, Yuri Amelin, Peng Tang, Jian-Bo Liu, Jisuo Jin, Bing Huang, Rong-Chang Wu, Shuo Xue, Bin Fu, Vickie C. Bennett, Xin Wei, Xiao-Cong Luan, Seth Finnegan, David A.T. Harper, Jia-Yu Rong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:Solid Earth Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451912X19300376