Events for March 24th

EES Geoscience Seminar Series: Nathan Marshall (UC-Riverside)

Friday, March 24, 2023, 3:30pm to 5:30pm

Lipid biomarker records for the Silurian Period (~443.1-419 Ma) are sparse despite this being a key interval for evolutionary and environmental changes in the ocean and on land. Multiple global-scale carbon perturbation events associated with marine biotic extinctions are found across the breadth of Silurian time. The Ireviken Biogeochemical Event (IBE) is the most well documented and conspicuous of these events that took place in the lower Silurian. The IBE spans across the Llandovery...