SP514 Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Response to the Jenkyns Event in the Early Toarcian (Jurassic)

Edited by M. Reolid, L. V. Duarte, E. Mattioli and W. Ruebsam

This volume focuses on the Early Jurassic global change known as the Jenkyns Event or Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. A profound palaeoenvironmental perturbation occurred, characterized by global warming, sea-level rise, carbon-cycle perturbation, oxygen-depleted conditions in epicontinental basins and a subsequent erosion of marine biodiversity, finally leading to a second-order mass extinction.