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Nature Geoscience 2, 539 - 540 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo598
Subject Category: Volcanology, mineralogy and petrology
Volcanism: Eruptions and extinctions
Nicholas Christie-Blick1
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Nicholas Christie-Blick is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964–8000, USA.
e-mail: ncb@ldeo.columbia.edu
Abstract
Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time, 260 million years ago. The close association of this event with an outpouring of lava, initially into the sea, indicates that explosive volcanism may have been the cause.
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