Includes the following sessions:
SSP1.3. Mass extinctions, volcanism, impacts and extreme environmental changes
Convenors: Alicia Fantasia (alicia.fantasia@geo.au.dk), Thierry Adatte (thierry.adatte@unil.ch), David Bond (d.bond@hull.ac.uk), Sverre Planke (planke@vbpr.no) and Nicolas Thibault (nt@ign.ku.dk)
This session will investigate how massive volcanism and meteorite impacts may cause mass extinctions and global environmental changes. We hope to bring together researchers from the geological, geophysical, and biological disciplines to present new and exciting results, and encourage interdisciplinary and modelling studies. The session will focus on the five major Phanerozoic crises (end-Ordovician, end-Devonian, end-Permian, end-Triassic, end-Cretaceous) and other related paleoenvironmental crises (e.g. Anthropocene, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and Oceanic Anoxic Events (OEAs) in the Mesozoic).