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Published online 16 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.957
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Caribbean volcanoes implicated in Cretaceous killing spree
Osmium isotopes prove origins of mass-extinction event
A massive volcanic eruption under the present-day Caribbean was responsible for a mass extinction that occurred 93 million years ago, say geologists.
Scientists had previously suspected that volcanic activity was behind a sudden and mysterious loss of oxygen in the world's oceans around the time of the Late Cretaceous.
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- 16 Jul, 2008
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