Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire

Little evidence of macrofossil charcoal, a wildfire proxy, is recorded from upper Lower to lowermost Upper Devonian rocks. Coals of this age are few, and petrographic data indicate low volumes (16% and remained at such levels from the Silurian through the floral and faunal colonization of land and,...

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Published in:Geology (Boulder) 2024-11, Vol.52 (11), p.846-850
Main Authors: Glasspool, Ian J., Gastaldo, Robert A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospheric oxygen
Charcoal
Devonian
Fossils
Organic matter
Phanerozoic
Silurian
Wildfires
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Summary:Little evidence of macrofossil charcoal, a wildfire proxy, is recorded from upper Lower to lowermost Upper Devonian rocks. Coals of this age are few, and petrographic data indicate low volumes (16% and remained at such levels from the Silurian through the floral and faunal colonization of land and, from our current estimates, stayed as such until the present.
ISSN:0091-7613
1943-2682
DOI:10.1130/G52648.1