Massive wildfires followed oceanic anoxic events during the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction
C records reveals that the lag between OAEs/organic carbon burial and wildfire onset reflects the time required for atmospheric oxygen to accumulate to levels sustaining widespread combustion. Together, these results provide the first high-resolution dataset capable of resolving the temporal sequence between OAEs and wildfire activity, enabling the establishment of their causal linkage during the catastrophic F-F environmental disruptions.
Authors
- Naihao Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2609-7408)
- Man Lu
- YueHan Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0536-532X)
- Takehito Ikejiri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0922-0272)
- Dawei Lv
- Qingyong Luo
- Richard Carroll
- Guoqiang Duan
- Yongge Sun
Institutions
- University of Alabama (US)
- China University of Petroleum, Beijing (CN)
- Geological Survey of Alabama (US)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Shandong University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady4534
- Primary Topic
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- China University of Petroleum, Beijing
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund