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7 - Eruptions, Emissions, and Enigmas: From Fuming Volcanic Vents to Mass Extinction Events
- By Tamsin A. Mather
Edited by Emily Joan Ward, University of Edinburgh, Robin Reuvers, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
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Enigmas

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01 September 2022

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18 August 2022, pp 148-178
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Earth's geological history is punctuated by episodes of unusually protracted and large-scale volcanic activity, during which huge volumes of igneous rock are added to Earth's surface and crust. Humans have not witnessed this type of large-scale volcanic activity, known as large igneous province volcanism, but it is often temporally associated with profound environmental and climatic changes, such as mass extinction events. In order to understand what triggers these global changes, we need to consider the fluxes of particles and gas emitted by large igneous province-scale volcanic activity and match our projections with the signals left in the geological record. This is a challenging endeavour and this chapter discusses how evidence from today's active volcanoes can teach us not just about the present-day impact of volcanism, but also about these much larger volcanic eruptions that happened tens to hundreds of millions of years ago. The author argues that by peering into volcanoes, we can shed new light on enigmas surrounding the evolution of Earth's environment and biology over its deep geological history.

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- By Alessandro Aiuppa, Nick T. Arndt, Jean Besse, Benjamin A. Black, Terrence J. Blackburn, Nicole Bobrowski, Samuel A. Bowring, Seth D. Burgess, Kevin Burke, Ying Cui, Vincent Courtillot, Amy Donovan, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Anna Fetisova, Frédéric Fluteau, Kirsten E. Fristad, Lori S. Glaze, Thor H. Hansteen, Morgan T. Jones, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Nadezhda A. Krivolutskaya, Kirstin Krüger, Lee R. Kump, Steffen Kutterolf, Dimitry V. Kuzmin, Jean-François Lamarque, A. Latyshev, Kimberly V. Lau, Tamsin A. Mather, Katja M. Meyer, Clive Oppenheimer, Vladimir Pavlov, Jonathan L. Payne, Ingrid Ukstins Peate, David Pieri, Sverre Planke, Ulrich Platt, Alexander Polozov, Fred Prata, Gemma Prata, David M. Pyle, Andy Ridgwell, Alan Robock, Ellen K. Schaal, Anja Schmidt, Stephen Self, Christine Shields, Juan Carlos Silva-Tamayo, Alexander V. Sobolev, Stephan V. Sobolev, Henrik Svensen, Trond H. Torsvik, Roman Veselovskiy
Edited by Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Kirsten Fristad, Western Washington University, Linda Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University
Book:

Volcanism and Global Environmental Change

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05 February 2015

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08 January 2015, pp viii-xii
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11 - Volatile release from flood basalt eruptions: understanding the potential environmental effects
from Part Two - Assessing gas and tephra release in the present day and palaeo-record
- By Stephen Self, Lori S. Glaze, Anja Schmidt, Tamsin A. Mather
Edited by Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Kirsten Fristad, Western Washington University, Linda Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University
Book:

Volcanism and Global Environmental Change

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05 February 2015

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08 January 2015, pp 164-176
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14 - Volcanic emissions: short-term perturbations, long-term consequences and global environmental change
from Part Three - Modes of volcanically induced global environmental change
- By Tamsin A. Mather, David M. Pyle
Edited by Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Kirsten Fristad, Western Washington University, Linda Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University
Book:

Volcanism and Global Environmental Change

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05 February 2015

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08 January 2015, pp 208-227
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11 - Volatile release from flood basalt eruptions: understanding the potential environmental effects

14 - Volcanic emissions: short-term perturbations, long-term consequences and global environmental change