Research project

Environmental tipping points during supercontinent breakup

Research groups:

Geology and Geophysics
Lead researcher:

Professor Thomas Gernon
Other researchers:

Professor Martin Palmer
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Thomas Gernon

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

See personal website: https://www.thomasgernon.co.uk/
Solid Earth drivers of Earth's climate state;
Earth surface processes;

Connect with Thomas

Email: T.M.Gernon@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Martin Palmer

Professor of Geochemistry

Connect with Martin

Email: M.R.Palmer@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Geochemistry

We use advanced facilities to perform the precise and accurate analysis of the chemical and isotopic composition of Earth materials.

Geology and Geophysics

We research a wide range of societally impactful areas of geology and geophysics for a sustainable future. The latest facilities and technology development support our activities.

Research outputs

Transient mobilization of subcrustal carbon coincident with Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum

Thomas Gernon, Ryan Barr, Godfrey Fitton, Thea Hincks, Derek Keir, Jack Longman, Andrew Merdith, Ross Mitchell & Martin Palmer, 2022, Nature Geoscience, 15(7), 573-579

DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-00967-6

Type: article

Did an asteroid impact cause temporary warming during snowball Earth?

Zhongwu Lan, Ross Mitchell, Thomas Gernon & Adam Nordsvan, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 581

DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117407

Type: article

Tephra deposition and bonding with reactive oxides enhances burial of organic carbon in the Bering Sea

Jack Longman, Thomas Gernon, Martin Palmer & Hayley Manners, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(11)

DOI: 10.1029/2021GB007140

Type: article

Viability of greenhouse gas removal via artificial addition of volcanic ash to the ocean

Jack Longman, Martin R. Palmer & Thomas M. Gernon, 2020, Anthropocene, 32