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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 29 > China eruptions may have caused mass extinction

China eruptions may have caused mass extinction

By Randolph E. Schmid / The Bulletin
May 29, 2009

WASHINGTON — A mass extinction some 260 million years ago might have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.

The so-called Guadalupian Mass Extinction, devastating marine life around the world, was preceded by massive eruptions in the Emeishan....

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