First plants cooled the Ordovician

Timothy M. Lenton; Michael Crouch; Martin Johnson; Nuno Pires; Liam Dolan

doi:10.1038/ngeo1390

First plants cooled the Ordovician

Timothy M. Lenton, Michael Crouch, Martin Johnson, Nuno Pires, Liam Dolan

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	86-89
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Geoscience
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1390
Publication status	Published - 2012

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