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News Release 13-046
Before Dinosaurs' Era, Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Mass Extinction
Increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, global warming, ocean acidification killed 76 percent of species on Earth
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Back to the future? Ancient rocks in Hartford Basin, Conn., offer a look into geologic time.
Credit: Terrence Blackburn and Paul Olsen
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Palisade Sill near Alpine, N.J., has geologic remnants of the end-Triassic extinction event.
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In a rock basin near Newark, N.J., the extinction is preserved in sandstone and mudstone.
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Red Head, Five Island Provincial Park, Nova Scotia: ancient extinction research site.
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Coarse grain segregation in sheet-like basalt near Rapidan, Va.; elements have crystallized.
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The researchers' findings are described in the March 22nd issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2013
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