Published 2011
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Book Section - Chapter
Late Ordovician-Early Silurian selective extinction patterns in Laurentia and their relationship to climate change
Abstract
There is general agreement that the Late Ordovician mass extinction is causally related to climate change, but the precise mechanism of the relationship is not well established. A mechanistic understanding the relationship between climate change and extinction is inhibited by uncertainties about the timing, nature and magnitude of climate change and by the lack of a distinct selective extinction pattern. Here we summarize recent and ongoing work aimed at clarifying both of these uncertainties.
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© 2011 Instituto Geológico y Minero de España. We wish to thank Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SEPAQ) Anticosti for permission to work in Anticosti National Park and the Agouron Institute and NSF Division of Earth Sciences for support.Additional details
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