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Recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major palaeozoic mass extinctions and climate change

Phosphorus locked in carbonate rocks from seven global sites shows simultaneous marine phosphorus spikes during major mass extinctions. Modelling ties high marine phosphorus to eutrophication, CO2 drawdown, and global cooling.

Matthew S. Dodd
Chao Li
Benjamin J. W. Mills
ResearchOpen Access24 Mar 2026
Nature Communications

P: 1-11
Closure of the Proterozoic Mozambique Ocean was instigated by a late Tonian plate reorganization event

A Proterozoic full-plate reconstruction reveals a late Tonian plate reorganization event that resulted in consumption of the Mozambique Ocean and the concentration of continents in the Southern Hemisphere.

Alan S. Collins
Morgan L. Blades
John D. Foden
ResearchOpen Access20 Apr 2021
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 2, P: 1-7
Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic

Earth’s surface temperature is stabilized by the drawdown of CO₂ owing to weathering of continental arcs, whose length is shown to be a primary control on global weathering fluxes, according to a probabilistic analysis of interdependencies.

Thomas M. Gernon
Thea K. Hincks
R. Dietmar Müller
Research23 Aug 2021
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 14, P: 690-696
Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse

The collapse of tropical forests during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction weakened carbon sequestration, sustaining high CO2 and extreme global warmth for millions of years: an example of a runaway feedback in Earth’s climate-carbon system.

Zhen Xu
Jianxin Yu
Benjamin J. W. Mills
ResearchOpen Access02 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
A geospatial platform for the tectonic interpretation of low-temperature thermochronology Big Data

Samuel C. Boone
Fabian Kohlmann
Brent McInnes
ResearchOpen Access26 May 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-15
Author Correction: Rift-induced disruption of cratonic keels drives kimberlite volcanism

Thomas M. Gernon
Stephen M. Jones
Anne Glerum
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access18 Dec 2023
Nature

Volume: 625, P: E7
Author Correction: Assembly of the basal mantle structure beneath Africa

Nicolas Flament
Ömer F. Bodur
Andrew S. Merdith
Amendments and Corrections27 May 2022
Nature

Volume: 606, P: E4
Author Correction: Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse

Zhen Xu
Jianxin Yu
Benjamin J. W. Mills
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access29 Oct 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1
Assembly of the basal mantle structure beneath Africa

Reconstruction of one billion years of mantle flow shows that mobile basal mantle structures are just as consistent with the Earth’s volcanic history as are fixed mantle structures.

Nicolas Flament
Ömer F. Bodur
Andrew S. Merdith
Research30 Mar 2022
Nature

Volume: 603, P: 846-851
Limited long-term cooling effects of Pangaean flood basalt weathering

Degassing of CO2 during large igneous province (LIP) emplacement may drive transient warming, but most LIPs do not substantially cool the climate on million-year timescales, according to modelling of the break-up of Pangaea.

Jack Longman
Benjamin J. W. Mills
Andrew S. Merdith
ResearchOpen Access23 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-10
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events

Cryptic degassing, whereby mantle-derived CO₂ fluxes continue after surface eruptions slow, can explain prolonged warming that followed some large igneous province events, according to geodynamic and climate modelling.

Benjamin A. Black
Leif Karlstrom
Andrew Merdith
ResearchOpen Access30 Oct 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 1162-1168
Dynamic redox and nutrient cycling response to climate forcing in the Mesoproterozoic ocean

Regional ocean redox variability and associated nutrient cycling in the Mesoproterozoic can be explained by climate forcing at individual locations, rather than specific events or step-changes in global oceanic redox conditions.

Yafang Song
Fred T. Bowyer
Simon W. Poulton
ResearchOpen Access20 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

The Earth may become inhospitable to land mammals in about 250 Myr owing to climate warming and drying associated with the assembly of the next supercontinent, Pangaea-Ultima, according to combined tectonic, climate and mammal habitability modelling.

Alexander Farnsworth
Y. T. Eunice Lo
Hannah R. Wakeford
ResearchOpen Access25 Sept 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 901-908
Transient mobilization of subcrustal carbon coincident with Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

A change in the style of rifting in the North Atlantic led to carbon fluxes from subcrustal melting that helped trigger the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, according to geochemical analyses of volcanic sequences as well as melting and tectonic modelling.

Thomas M. Gernon
Ryan Barr
Martin R. Palmer
Research23 Jun 2022
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 15, P: 573-579
Rift-induced disruption of cratonic keels drives kimberlite volcanism

Most kimberlites erupting in the past billion years on Earth did so about 30 million years after continental breakup, with dynamical and analytical models suggesting a control from rifting-related mantle delamination.

Thomas M. Gernon
Stephen M. Jones
Anne Glerum
ResearchOpen Access26 Jul 2023
Nature

Volume: 620, P: 344-350
Evolution of Earth’s tectonic carbon conveyor belt

Oceanic plate carbon reservoirs are reconstructed and the fate of subducted carbon is tracked using thermodynamic modelling, challenging previous views and providing boundary conditions for future carbon cycle models.

R. Dietmar Müller
Ben Mather
Sabin Zahirovic
Reviews25 May 2022
Nature

Volume: 605, P: 629-639