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ProfessorMarkSephton

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Professor of Organic Geochemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6542m.a.sephton Website

 
 
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2.34Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Sephton:2015:10.1130/G36227.1,
author = {Sephton, MA and Jiao, D and Engel, MH and Looy, CV and Visscher, H},
doi = {10.1130/G36227.1},
journal = {Geology},
pages = {159--162},
title = {Terrestrial acidification during the end-Permian biosphere crisis?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G36227.1},
volume = {43},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Excessive acid rainfall associated with emplacement of the Siberian Traps magmatic province is increasingly accepted as a major contributing factor to the end-Permian biosphere crisis. However, direct proxy evidence of terrestrial acidification is so far not available. In this paper, we seek to determine the probability that relative proportions of extractable monophenolic components from soil-derived organic matter in marine sediments provide a molecular proxy for estimating soil acidity. Intermittently low and high ratios of vanillic acid to vanillin detected in latest Permian and earliest Triassic deposits of the southern Alps, Italy, support concepts of pulses of severe acidification (pH <4) during the main phase of the biosphere crisis.
AU  - Sephton,MA
AU  - Jiao,D
AU  - Engel,MH
AU  - Looy,CV
AU  - Visscher,H
DO  - 10.1130/G36227.1
EP  - 162
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 1943-2682
SP  - 159
TI  - Terrestrial acidification during the end-Permian biosphere crisis?
T2  - Geology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G36227.1
UR  - http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/43/2/159
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/31566
VL  - 43
ER  -
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