R. M. Russo
Assistant Professor
223 Williamson Hall
phone: 2-6776
rrusso@ufl.edu
Office hours
MW: 12:40-13:40
or by appointment
GLY 6932 Writing for Geology
Fall 2009 Meeting Time: Friday 12:50-14:45 pm
Williamson Hall 218
Unit 1 Reading:
Mid-Cretaceous
seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction?, by M. Seton, C. Gaina, R.D. Müller, and C.
Heine, Geology, vol. 37, no.
8, p. 687-690; doi:
10.1130/G25624A.1, 2009.Unit 2 Reading:
Vertebrate extinctions and reorganizations during the Late Silurian, by Mats E. Eriksson, Eva K. Nilsson, and Lennart Jeppsson, Geology, vol. 37, no. 8, p. 739-742; doi: 10.1130/G25709A.1, 2009.Unit 3 Reading:
Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, by Luis W. Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen V. Michel, Science, vol. 208, no. 4448, p. 1095-1108, 1980.On the ages of flood basalt events, by Vincent E. Courtillot and Paul R. Renne, Comptes Rendus Geosciences, vol. 335, p. 113-140, 2003.
Unit 4 Reading:
Impact production of CO2 by the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction bolide and the resultant heating of the Earth, by John D. O'Keefe and Thomas J. Ahrens, Nature, vol. 338, p. 247-249, 1989.Impact winter and the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions: Results of a Chicxulub asteroid impact model, by Kevin O. Pope, Kevin H. Baines, Adriana C. Ocampo, and Boris A. Ivanov, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., vol. 128, p. 719-725, 1994.
Sulfur and Chlorine in Late Cretaceous Deccan magmas and eruptive ga release, by Stephen Slef, Stephen Blake, Kirti Sharma, Mike Widdowson, and Sarah Sephton, Science, vol. 319, p. 1654-1657, doi: 10.1126/science.1152830, 2008.
Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event 2 triggered by a massive magmatic episode, by Steven C. Turgeon and Robert A. Creaser, Nature, vol. 454, p. 323-326, doi: 10.1038/nature07076, 2008.
Unit 5 Reading:
A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth, by Paul F. Hoffman, Alan J. Kaufman, Galen P. Halverson, and Daniel P. Schrag, Science, vol. 281, p. 1,342-1,346, 1998.Neoproterozoic glacial-rainout intervals: Observations and implications, by D. J. Condon, A. R. Prave, and D. I. Benn, Geology, vol. 30, p. 35-38, 2002.
Absence of runaway ice-albedo feedback in the Neoproterozoic, by Christopher J. Poulsen, Geology, vol. 31, p. 473-476, 2003.
Low-latitiude glaciation in the Neoproterozoic of Oman, by Ben Kilner, Conall Mac Niocaill and Martin Brasier, Geology, vol. 33, p. 413-416, 2005.
Biomarker evidence for photosynthesis during Neoproterozoic glaciation, by Alison N. Olcott, Alex L. Sessions, Frank A. Corsetti, Alan J. Kaufman, and Tolentino Flavio de Oliviera, Science, vol. 310, 471-474, 2005.
Snowball Earth prevention by dissolved organic carbon remineralization, by W. Richard Peltier, Yonggang Liu, and John W. Crowley, Nature, vol. 450, doi:10.1038/nature06354, 2007.
Readings for Context:
Models on Snowball Earth and Cambrian explosion: A synopsis, by S. Maruyama and M. Santosh, Gondwana Research, vol. 14, p. 22-32, 2008.
The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacarn-Cambrian radiation, by Joseph G. Meert and Bruce S. Lieberman, Gondwana Research, vol. 14, p. 5-21, 2008.
A palaeogeographic context for Neoproterozoic glaciation, by Paul F. Hoffman and Zheng-Xiang Li, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 277, p. 158-172, 2009.
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