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How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times (2023)
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Grasby, S. E., & Bond, D. P. (2023). How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times. Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 19(5), 276-281. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.19.5.276

Evolution has not been a simple path. Since the first appearance of complex life, there have been several mass extinctions on Earth. This was exemplified by the most severe event during the Phanerozoic, the end-Permian mass extinction that occurred 2... Read More about How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times.

3D Seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin (2023)
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Layfield, L. K., Schofield, N., Watson, D., Holford, S. P., Jolley, D. W., Kilhams, B. A., Muirhead, D. K., Roberts, A. M., Alvey, A. D., Ellwood, A., & Widdowson, M. (2023). 3D Seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(5), Article jgs2022-172. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-172

Lower crustal intrusion is considered to be a common process along volcanic or magma-rich passive margins, including the NE Atlantic Margin, where it is thought to have occurred during phases of Paleogene magmatism, both prior to and during continent... Read More about 3D Seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin.

Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable (2023)
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Fernando, B., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Williams, R., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Newton, A., Mills, K., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., Souch, C., & Dowey, N. (2023). Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable. Nature Geoscience, 16(8), 658-660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01241-z

Admission to doctoral study is a crucial step in the academic pipeline, but discriminatory procedures can disproportionately impact students from ethnic minority backgrounds. We show how these policies contribute to inequity in the geosciences and pr... Read More about Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable.

Eclogites and basement terrane tectonics in the northern arm of the Grenville orogen, NW Scotland (2023)
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Bird, A., Thirlwall, M., Strachan, R. A., Millar, I. L., Dempsey, E. D., & Hardman, K. (2023). Eclogites and basement terrane tectonics in the northern arm of the Grenville orogen, NW Scotland. Geoscience Frontiers, 14(6), Article 101668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2023.101668

The presence of eclogites within continental crust is a key indicator of collisional orogenesis. Eclogites within the Eastern Glenelg basement inlier of the Northern Highland Terrane (NHT) have been re-dated in order to provide more accurate constrai... Read More about Eclogites and basement terrane tectonics in the northern arm of the Grenville orogen, NW Scotland.

Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea (2023)
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Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., Roberts, N. M., Lee, J., Underhill, J. R., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K. J., & Selby, D. (2023). Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(5), Article jgs2022-166. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-166

Like many rift basins worldwide, the Inner Moray Firth Basin (IMFB) is bounded by major reactivated fault zones, including the Helmsdale Fault and the Great Glen Fault (GGF). The Jurassic successions exposed onshore close to these faults at Helmsdale... Read More about Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea.

Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction (2023)
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Song, H., Algeo, T., Song, H., Tong, J., Wignall, P., Bond, D. P., Zheng, W., Chen, X., Romaniello, S., Wei, H., & Anbar, A. (2023). Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction. Earth and planetary science letters, 610, Article 118128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118128

The timing and causation of the Capitanian (late Middle Permian) biocrisis remain controversial. Here, a detailed uranium-isotopic (δ238U) profile was generated for the mid-Capitanian to lower Wuchiapingian of the Penglaitan section (the Guadalupian/... Read More about Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction.

Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China (2023)
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Zhang, P., Yang, M., Lu, J., Jiang, Z., Zhou, K., Liu, H., He, Z., Wang, Y., Bian, X., Shao, L., Hilton, J., & Bond, D. P. (2023). Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Global and planetary change, 223, Article 104094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104094

The breakup of Pangaea and the rapid opening of the Ligurian and Central Atlantic oceans during the Middle Jurassic resulted in widespread volcanism accompanied by significant shifts in global environments, climates, and floras. Although major volcan... Read More about Middle Jurassic terrestrial environmental and floral changes linked to volcanism: Evidence from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.

Strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development on the northern UK continental shelf (2023)
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Utley, T. A., Holdsworth, R. E., Blackbourn, G. A., Dempsey, E., Strachan, R. A., McCaffrey, K. J., Morton, A. C., Bird, A. F., Jones, R. R., Saßnowski, A., & Walker, R. J. (2023). Strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development on the northern UK continental shelf. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(3), Article jgs2022-148. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-148

The island of Foula, located 25 km SW of Shetland, preserves a gently folded, 1.6 km thick sequence of Middle Devonian sandstones spectacularly exposed in kilometre-long cliff sections >350 m high. These rocks unconformably overlie likely Precambrian... Read More about Strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development on the northern UK continental shelf.

An astronomical timescale for the Permian-Triassic mass extinction reveals a two-step, million-year-long terrestrial crisis in South China (2023)
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Hua, F., Shao, L., Zhang, T., Bond, D. P., Wang, X., Wang, J., Yan, Z., Lu, J., & Hilton, J. (2023). An astronomical timescale for the Permian-Triassic mass extinction reveals a two-step, million-year-long terrestrial crisis in South China. Earth and planetary science letters, 605, Article 118035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118035

The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) is the greatest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic. In terrestrial settings, the PTME appears to have been diachronous and it has been suggested that losses initiated before the marine crisis. We examine orga... Read More about An astronomical timescale for the Permian-Triassic mass extinction reveals a two-step, million-year-long terrestrial crisis in South China.

The Equator Project (2023)
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Dowey, N., Giles, S., Jackson, C., Williams, R., Fernando, B., Lawrence, A., Raji, M., Barclay, J., Brotherson, L., Childs, E., Houghton, J., Khatwa, A., Mills, K., Newton, A., Rockey, F., Rogers, S., & Souch, C. (2023). The Equator Project