Volcanic eruptions in Canada 'caused largest mass extinction' 250m years ago by Graham Smith, Daily Mail January 24, 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1349981/Volcanic-eruptions-Canada-caused-largest-mass-extinction-250m-years-ago.html
(Note: the headline badly garbles what the paper concludes.) Calgary researchers link mass extinction to volcanic ash Calgary Sun, Jenna McMurray , Jan. 23, 2011 http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2011/01/23/17004071.html Evidence in Canadian Arctic points to volcanoes as cause of massive extinction, Mark Iype and Lea Storry, Postmedia News, January 23, 2011 http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Evidence+Canadian+Arctic+points+volcanoes+cause+massive+extinction/4152438/story.html Massive volcanic eruptions + coal fires = the Great Dying By John Timmer. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/massive-volcanic-eruptions-coal-fires-the-great-dying.ars The paper is: Grasby, S. E., H. Sanei, and B. Beauchamp, 2011, Catastrophic dispersion of coal fly ash into oceans during the latest Permian extinction. Nature geoscience. Published online 23 January 2011 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo1069.html Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
