High-precision timeline for Earth's most severe extinction
The end-Permian mass extinction was the most severe loss of marine and terrestrial biota in the last 542 My. Understanding its cause and the controls on extinction/recovery dynamics depends on an accurate and precise age model. U-Pb zircon dates for five volcanic ash beds from the Global Stratotype...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.),
2014-11-10T14:43:53Z.
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