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Earth Catastrophes and their Impact on the Carbon Cycle

Suarez, CA; Edmonds, M; Jones, AP; (2019) Earth Catastrophes and their Impact on the Carbon Cycle. Elements , 15 (5) pp. 301-306. 10.2138/gselements.15.5.301. Green open access

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Abstract

Carbon is one of the most important elements on Earth. It is the basis of life, it is stored and mobilized throughout the Earth from core to crust and it is the basis of the energy sources that are vital to human civilization. This issue will focus on the origins of carbon on Earth, the roles played by large-scale catastrophic carbon perturbations in mass extinctions, the movement and distribution of carbon in large igneous provinces, and the role carbon plays in icehouse–greenhouse climate transitions in deep time. Present-day carbon fluxes on Earth are changing rapidly, and it is of utmost importance that scientists understand Earth's carbon cycle to secure a sustainable future.

Type: Article
Title: Earth Catastrophes and their Impact on the Carbon Cycle
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2138/gselements.15.5.301
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.15.5.301
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 by the Mineralogical Society of America Mineralogical Society of America. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
Keywords: impacts, Earth's origin, extinction, climate change, volcanism, large igneous province
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084607
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