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Mass extinction may have been caused by volcano

JUN 02, 2009
Physics Today
Associated Press : A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests .
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[ Image credit : Re-evaluating vertical motion preceding the Emeishan continental flood basalt province, SW China]The so-called Guadalupian Mass Extinction , devastating marine life around the world, was preceded by massive eruptions in the Emeishan geological province of Southwest China, says Paul Wignall of the University of Leeds and colleagues in Science. Related Link Volcanism, Mass Extinction, and Carbon Isotope Fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China
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