Events

Presentation by Dr. Ben Black.

Six ways of looking at Large Igneous Province CO₂

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) rank as some of Earth’s most voluminous magmatic events, and in multiple cases coincide with profound disruptions of the carbon cycle, climate, and life. Paleoclimate records suggest massive CO₂ release is central to such disruption, but determining how, when, and why LIPs release CO₂ is challenging. In this talk I consider multiple perspectives on LIP CO₂, including datasets from paleoclimatology, petrology, and geodynamics, with the goal of building a more comprehensive portrait of the temporal evolution of LIP carbon emissions and environmental consequences.