Mochras borehole revisited: a new global standard for Early Jurassic earth history
2013
The Early Jurassic epoch was a time of extreme environmental
change: there are well-documented examples of rapid
transitions from cold, or even glacial, climates to super
greenhouse events, the latter characterized worldwide by
hugely enhanced organic carbon burial, multiple large isotopic
anomalies, global sea-level change, and mass extinction
(Price, 1999; Hesselbo et al., 2000; Jenkyns, 2010; Korte
and Hesselbo, 2011). These icehouse–greenhouse events
not only reflect changes in the global climate system but are
also thought to have had significant influence on the evolution
of Jurassic marine biota (e.g. van de Schootbrugge et
al., 2005; Fraguas et al., 2012). Furthermore, the events may
serve as analogues for present-day and future environmental
transitions.
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