“…It has been documented in carbonates from North America, Europe, and Asia (Patzkowsky et al, 1997;Ludvigson et al, 2000;Ainsaar et al, 2004;Kaljo et al, 2004;Ludvigson et al, 2004;Saltzman and Young, 2005;Young et al, 2005;Bergström et al, 2008;Young et al, 2008;Bergström et al, 2010;Buggisch et al, 2010;Metzger and Fike, 2013;Pancost et al, 2013;Metzger et al, 2014). The excursion has been proposed to represent a perturbation in the global carbon cycle causally related to the onset of Late Ordovician cooling culminating in the Hirnantian glaciation (Ainsaar et al, 2004;Saltzman and Young, 2005;Young et al, 2008;2010). Specifically, the GICE is argued to reflect an interval of enhanced organic carbon burial resulting in a decrease in atmospheric CO 2 and reduced greenhouse forcing Young et al, 2008;2010).…”