Did Algae Cause The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction? 10OCT2018

Did Algae Cause The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction?

Kornei, K. (2018), Tiny algae may have prompted
a mass extinction, Eos, 99,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO102539
Published on 11 July 2018.

https://eos.org/articles/tiny-algae-may-have-prompted-a-mass-extinction

https://eos.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/eos0918.pdf?x69145

https://eos.org/current-issues

The paper is;

Shen, J., Pearson, A., Henkes, G.A., Zhang, Y.G.,
Chen, K., Li, D., Wankel, S.D., Finney, S.C. and
Shen, Y., 2018. Improved efficiency of the
biological pump as a trigger for the Late
Ordovician glaciation. Nature Geoscience, 11(7), p.510.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0141-5

Yours,

Paul H.