Reply to comment on “Remírez, M.N. and Algeo, T.J., 2020. Paleosalinity determination in ancient epicontinental seas: A case study of the T-OAE in the Cleveland Basin (UK). Earth-Science Reviews, 201, 103072” by Stephen P. Hesselbo, Crispin T. S. Little, Micha Ruhl, Nicolas Thibault, and Clemens V. Ullmann

REMÍREZ, MARIANO N.; ALGEO, THOMAS J.

EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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Año: 2020 vol. 208

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We thank Stephen Hesselbo and his colleagues for their thoughtful Comment (henceforth, ?Hetal-20?) on our article (Remírez and Algeo, 2020a, henceforth ?R&A-20? as in their Comment), which provides us an opportunity to elaborate upon several key issues related to our study. R&A-20 presents evidence for a large decrease in salinity within the Cleveland Basin (U.K.) during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). Our study is significant in (1) offering an alternative model to the existing paradigm for observed patterns of geochemical and paleobiological changes during the T-OAE, and (2) demonstrating the importance of applying a combination of salinity and redox proxies in analysis of paleoenvironmental variation in marginal-marine basins. We hope that R&A-20 stimulates further investigations of these issues.