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A deeper understanding of hyperthermal events in the Earth’s history can provide an important scientific basis for understanding and coping with global warming in the Anthropocene. Two types of hyperthermal events are classified based on the characteristics of the carbon isotope excursion (CIE) of the five representative hyperthermal events in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The first type is overall characterized by negative CIEs (NCHE) and represented by the Permian-Triassic boundary event (PTB, ~252 Ma), the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (TOAE, ~183 Ma), and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event (PETM, ~56 Ma). The second type is overall characterized by positive CIEs (PCHE) and represented by the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event (OAE1a, ~120 Ma) and the latest Cenomanian oceanic anoxic event (OAE2, ~94 Ma). Hyperthermal events of negative CIEs (NCHE), lead to dramatic changes in temperature, sedimentation, and biodiversity. These events caused frequent occurrence of terrestrial wildfires, extreme droughts, acid rain, destruction of ozone layer, metal poisoning (such as mercury), changes in terrestrial water system, and carbonate platform demise, ocean acidification, ocean anoxia in marine settings, and various degree extinction of terrestrial and marine life, especially in shallow marine. In contrast, hyperthermal events of positive CIEs (PCHE), result in rapid warming of seawater and widespread oceanic anoxia, large-scale burial of organic matter and associated black shale deposition, which exerted more significant impacts on deep-water marine life, but little impacts on shallow sea and terrestrial life. While PCHEs were triggered by volcanism associated with LIPs in deep-sea environment, the released heat and nutrient were buffered by seawater due to their eruption in the deep sea, thus exerted more significant impacts on deep-marine biota than on shallow marine and terrestrial biota. This work enriches the study of hyperthermal events in geological history, not only for the understanding of hyperthermal events themselves, large igneous provinces, marine and terrestrial environment changes, mass extinctions, but also for providing a new method to identify the types of hyperthermal events and the inference of their driving mechanism based on the characteristics of carbon isotopic excursions and geological records.
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We thank Chengshan WANG, Zhengtang GUO Shuzhong SHEN, David KEMP, Micha RUHL, Ying CUI, Chunju HUANG and Jitao CHEN for their constructive discussions and useful suggestions. We are grateful to six anonymous reviewers and associate editor Jianfang HU for their comments that greatly helped to improve the manuscript. This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41888101) and National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant No. 41525007).
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Major LIPs and hyperthermal events in the Phanerozoic showing types of events, LIP eruption environment, CIE magnitude and environmental effects
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Hu, X., Li, J., Han, Z. et al. Two types of hyperthermal events in the Mesozoic-Cenozoic: Environmental impacts, biotic effects, and driving mechanisms. Sci. China Earth Sci. 63, 1041–1058 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9604-4
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