Revealing hidden volcanic triggers for global environmental change events in Earth’s geological past using mercury (Hg)

Project Information

V-ECHO

Grant agreement ID: 818717

DOI 10.3030/818717

EC signature date 14 February 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 599,00

EU contribution € 1 999 599,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Large Igneous Provinces and the Release of Thermogenic Volatiles from Sedimentary Basins

Author(s): H.H. Svensen, M.T. Jones, and T.A. Mather
Published in: Elements, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 282-288, ISSN 1811-5209
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
DOI: 10.2138/gselements.19.5.282

Permo–Triassic boundary carbon and mercury cycling linked to terrestrial ecosystem collapse

Author(s): Jacopo Dal Corso, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Daoliang Chu, Robert J. Newton, Tamsin A. Mather, Wenchao Shu, Yuyang Wu, Jinnan Tong, Paul B. Wignall
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16725-4

Effects of redox variability and early diagenesis on marine sedimentary Hg records

Author(s): J. Frieling, T.A. Mather, C. März, H.C. Jenkyns, R. Hennekam, G.-J. Reichart, C.P. Slomp and N.A.G.M. van Helmond
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 351, 2023, Page(s) 78-95, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.015

Determining the style and provenance of magmatic activity during the Early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE 1a)

Author(s): L.M.E. Percival, L.R. Tedeschi, R.A. Creaser, C. Bottini, E. Erba, F. Giraud, H. Svensen, J. Savian, R. Trindade, R. Coccioni, F. Frontalini, L. Jovane, T.A. Mather, H.C. Jenkyns
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 2021, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103461

Mercury records covering the past 90 000 years from lakes Prespa and Ohrid, SE Europe

Author(s): A.R. Paine, I.M. Fendley, J. Frieling, T.A. Mather, J.H. Lacey, B. Wagner, S.A. Robinson, D.M. Pyle, A. Francke, T.R. Them II and K. Panagiotopoulos
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 21, 2024, Page(s) 531–556, ISSN 1726-4170
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/bg-21-531-2024

Tracing North Atlantic volcanism and seaway connectivity across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)

Author(s): M.T. Jones, E.W. Stokke, A.D. Rooney, J. Frieling, P.A.E. Pogge von Strandmann, D.J. Wilson, H.H. Svensen, S. Planke, T. Adatte, N.R. Thibault, M.L. Vickers, T.A. Mather, C. Tegner, V. Zuchuat, and B.P. Schult
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 1623-1652, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-1623-2023

The life cycle of Large Igneous Provinces

Author(s): B. Black, L. Karlstrom, T.A. Mather
Published in: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021, ISSN 2662-138X
Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE CAMPUS
DOI: 10.1038/s43017-021-00221-4

Volcanism and carbon cycle perturbations in the High Arctic during the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous

Author(s): M.L. Vickers, M.E. Jelby, K.K. Śliwińska, L.M.E. Percival; F. Wang, H. Sanei, G.D. Price, C.V. Ullmann, S.E. Grasby, L. Reinhardt, T.A. Mather, J. Frieling, C. Korte, R.M. Jerrett, M.T. Jones, I. Midtkandal and J.M. Galloway
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Issue 613, 2023, Page(s) 111412, ISSN 1872-616X
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111412

Release of mercury during contact metamorphism of shale: implications for understanding the impacts of large igneous province volcanism

Author(s): H.H. Svensen, M.T. Jones, L.M.E. Percival, S. Grasby and T.A. Mather
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 619, 2023, Page(s) 118306, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118306

Reduced plate motion controlled timing of early Jurassic Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province volcanism

Author(s): M. Ruhl, S.P. Hesselbo, H.C. Jenkyns, W. Xu, R.L. Silva, K.J. Matthews, T.A. Mather, C. Mac Niocaill and J.B. Riding
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8, 2022, Page(s) eabo0866, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo0866

Mercury deposition in Western Tethys during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic)

Author(s): M. Mazaheri-Johari, P. Gianolla, T.A. Mather, J. Frieling, D. Chu, J. Dal Corso
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96890-8

Deoxygenation and organic carbon sequestration in the Tethyan realm associated with the middle Eocene climatic optimum

Author(s): M.J. Cramwinckel, R. van der Ploeg, N.A.G.M. van Helmond, N. Waarlo, C. Agnini, P.K. Bijl, A. van der Boon, H. Brinkhuis, J. Frieling, W. Krijgsman, T.A. Mather, J.J. Middelburg, F. Peterse, C.P. Slomp and A. Sluijs
Published in: GSA Bulletin, Issue 135, 2023, Page(s) 1280-1296, ISSN 1943-2674
Publisher: GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1130/b36280.1

Paleocene/Eocene carbon feedbacks triggered by volcanic activity

Author(s): S. Kender, K. Bogus, G.K. Pedersen, K. Dybkjær, T.A. Mather, E. Mariani, A. Ridgwell, J.B. Riding, T. Wagner, S.P. Hesselbo, M.J. Leng
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25536-0

No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations

Author(s): J. Frieling, T.A. Mather, I.M. Fendley, H.C. Jenkyns, Z. Zhao, T.W. Dahl, B.A. Bergquist, K. Cheng, A.T. Nielsen, A.J. Dickson
Published in: Geology, Issue 52, 2024, Page(s) 12-16, ISSN 0091-7613
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g51570.1