Lauren P. Birgenheier

TL;DR: Major restructuring of paleotropical flora in western Euramerica occurred in step with climate and pCO2 shifts, illustrating the biotic impact associated with past CO2-forced turnover to a permanent ice-free world.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age comprised at least eight discrete glacial intervals (each 1-8 Ma in duration) separated by nonglacial intervals of comparable duration, and illustrate a pattern of increasing climatic austerity and increasingly widespread glacial ice from initial onset until an acme in the late Early Permian.

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature review as discussed by the authors shows that the magnitude of eustatic fluctuations varied throughout the Carboniferous and Permian and that at least eight distinct phases can be recognized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used stratigraphic records from late Paleozoic, ice-proximal basins of Gondwana provide an ideal framework for interpreting independently derived, temporal trends in the stable carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of paleotropical marine carbonates.