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Drill core reveals asynchronous land–ocean responses to ancient ocean anoxia

  • March 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Drill core reveals asynchronous land–ocean responses to ancient ocean anoxia
Earth experienced a period of intense, large-scale volcanism during the early Aptian. Around that time, it also experienced widespread ocean deoxygenation during the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a) as well as the onset of a period of unusual stability in Earth's magnetic field, known as the Cretaceous Normal Superchron (CNS), which lasted about 38 million years.

Originally published at Phys.org

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