Lenton, Timothy M; Crouch, Michael; Johnson, Martin; Pires, Nuno; Dolan, Liam (2012). First plants cooled the Ordovician. Nature Geoscience, 5(2):86-89.
The Late Ordovician period, ending 444 million years ago, was marked by the onset of glaciations. The expansion of non-vascular land plants accelerated chemical weathering and may have drawn down enough atmospheric carbon dioxide to trigger the growth of ice sheets.
The Late Ordovician period, ending 444 million years ago, was marked by the onset of glaciations. The expansion of non-vascular land plants accelerated chemical weathering and may have drawn down enough atmospheric carbon dioxide to trigger the growth of ice sheets.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 07 Faculty of Science > Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
07 Faculty of Science > Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 580 Plants (Botany) |
| Scopus Subject Areas: | Physical Sciences > General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Deposited On: | 22 Feb 2013 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2020 07:52 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| ISSN: | 1752-0894 |
| OA Status: | Closed |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1390 |
Lenton, Timothy M