Devonian extinction saw the oceans choke to death (Before the first animals had crawled out onto land, marine animals suffered a catastrophic mass extinction. They may have literally asphyxiated.) by Chris Baraniuk, BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150624-the-day-the-oceans-died
Some papers of Dr. Algeo that related to this article are: Algeo, T.J., R.A. Berner, J.P. Maynard, and S.E. Scheckler. 1995. "Late Devonian oceanic anoxic events and biotic crises: "Rooted" in the evolution of vascular land plants?" GSA Today 5: 45, 64-66. http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/gsatoday/archive/toc9503.htm https://www.academia.edu/9828046/Late_Devonian_oceanic_anoxic_events_and_biotic_crises_Rooted_in_the_evolution_of_vascular_land_plants_1995_GSA_Today_ http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/5/3/pdf/i1052-5173-5-3-sci.pdf Algeo, T.J. and S.E. Scheckler. 1998. "Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353: 113-130. http://www.academia.edu/9838637/Terrestrial-marine_teleconnections_in_the_Devonian_Links_between_the_evolution_of_land_plants_weathering_processes_and_marine_anoxic_events_1998_Philosophical_Transactions_Royal_Society_of_London_ http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/353/1365/113 http://www.jstor.org/stable/56580?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Algeo, T.J., S.E. Scheckler and J. B. Maynard. 2000. "Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian spread of vascular land plants on weathering regimes, marine biota, and global climate." pp. 213-236. In: P.G. Gensel and D. Edwards (eds.). 2001 Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Approaches. Columbia Univ. Press: New York. Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list