First plants cooled the Ordovician

Lenton, Timothy M., Crouch, Michael, Johnson, Martin, Pires, Nuno and Dolan, Liam (2012) First plants cooled the Ordovician. Nature Geoscience, 5 (2). pp. 86-89. ISSN 1752-0894

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Abstract

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:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	23 Oct 2013 12:04
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2025 21:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43669
DOI:	10.1038/ngeo1390

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