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Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
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Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
July 31, 2017 by Rob Enslin


A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago.

James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an article in Nature Communications (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017) titled "Initial Pulse of Siberian Traps Sills as the Trigger of the End-Permian Mass Extinction."


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-geologists-clues-world-greatest-extinction.html#jCp
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Re: Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
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Re: Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2017, 08:50:34 am »
This can't be right.  Carbon dioxide has nothing to do with climate!  </sarc>

Thanks, @Freya!
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Re: Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2017, 10:31:43 am »
Another day, another straw, another grasp, another gradualist waste of time.
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Re: Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinction
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2017, 02:23:47 am »
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Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoz-lfw072617.php
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