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Environmental tipping points during supercontinent breakup

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Thomas Gernon

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • See personal website: https://www.thomasgernon.co.uk/
  • Solid Earth drivers of Earth's climate state;
  • Earth surface processes;
Other researchers

Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Geology and Geophysics

We research a wide range of societally impactful areas of geology and geophysics for a sustainable future. The latest facilities and technology development support our activities.

Research outputs

Transient mobilization of subcrustal carbon coincident with Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Thomas Gernon,
Ryan Barr,
Godfrey Fitton,
Thea Hincks,
Derek Keir,
Jack Longman,
Andrew Merdith,
Ross Mitchell,
& Martin Palmer
, 2022 , Nature Geoscience , 15 (7) , 573--579
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-00967-6
Type: article
Did an asteroid impact cause temporary warming during snowball Earth?
Zhongwu Lan,
Ross Mitchell,
Thomas Gernon,
& Adam Nordsvan
, 2022 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 581
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117407
Type: article
Tephra deposition and bonding with reactive oxides enhances burial of organic carbon in the Bering Sea
Jack Longman,
Thomas Gernon,
Martin Palmer,
& Hayley Manners
, 2021 , Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 35 (11)
DOI: 10.1029/2021GB007140
Type: article
Viability of greenhouse gas removal via artificial addition of volcanic ash to the ocean
Jack Longman,
Martin R. Palmer,
& Thomas M. Gernon
, 2020 , Anthropocene , 32
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100264
Type: article
Hit or miss: glacial incisions of snowball Earth
Ross Mitchell,
Thomas Gernon,
Adam Nordsvan,
Grant Cox,
Zheng-Xiang Li,
& Paul Hoffman
, 2019 , Terra Nova
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12400
Type: article
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