Siberian volcano 'wiped out world's forests' 250m years ago A huge Siberian volcano destroyed the world's forests 250 million years ago in what scientists say was the worst extinction event the planet has ever witnessed, new research has disclosed. Telegraph, UK,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6253147/Siberian-volcano-wiped-out-worlds-forests-250m-years-ago.html Sephton, M. A., H. Visscher, C. V. Looy, A. B. Verchovsky,and J. S. Watson, 2009, Chemical constitution of a Permian-Triassic disaster species. Geology. vol. 37, pp. 875-878, doi:10.1130/G30096A.1 http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/10/875.abstract Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
