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History of the Earth and Mass Extinction Events

Instituto de Geología, UNAM

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Objectives:

• Exposing the participants to the fundamentals of life history, evolution, and mass extinctions. 
• Examining the ancient past mass extinction events to better understand how global warming will lead to mass extinctions. 

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Proyectos: 

• Conacyt-A1-S-18123: Registro y caracterización paleoambiental del Evento Anóxico Oceánico 2 (Cenomaniano-Turoniano) en México: implicaciones paleoceanográficas y genéticas.
• PAPIIT-IN107422: Ambiente de depósito y potencial generador de hidrocarburos de las sucesiones sedimentarias del Cenomaniano-Turoniano en el NE de México.

Content:

• Principles in Stratigraphy, history, methods (litho-, bio-chrono-stratigraphy). Evolutive paleontology and micropaleontology, short overview of life evolution. History of life and Mass extinctions events, introduction, evolutive paleontology, causes and mechanisms. 
• The origin of life, Precambrian life, the Cambrian explosion-radiation. The End-Ordovician and End Devonian mass extinctions, causes, mechanisms, and consequences. 
• The mother of the mass extinctions: Permian-Triassic mass extinction, causes, mechanisms, and consequences (volcanism, super anoxia). 
• The End-Triassic mass extinction, causes, mechanisms, and consequences (volcanism, anoxia…etc.). The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, causes, mechanisms, and consequences (volcanism, Deccan volcanism, impact, etc.).
• The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal maximum (PETM), the best analog for the actual warming? examples from Europe, Egypt, and India. The Anthropocene, stratigraphical basis? paleontological evidence, geochemical proxies, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Dr. Thierry Adatte
Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Lausanne

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