A 60 million-year cyclic fluctuation in biotic extinction and diversity in the Phanerozoic suggests a response to biogeochemical redox cycling in shallow marine habitats paced by global tectonic processes, according to time-series analysis and correlation of empirical and model datasets of Earth’s interior and surficial processes.
- Slah Boulila
- Shanan E. Peters
- Bilal U. Haq