Eruptions Cleared Path for Dinosaurs

The world's largest known set of volcanic eruptions may have killed off much of the existing life in the Triassic period.

References:

Marzoli, A., P.R., Renne, et al. 1999. Extensive 200-million-year-old continental flood basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science 284(April 23):616.

Further Readings:

Olsen, P.E. 1999. Giant lava flows, mass extinctions, and mantle plumes. Science 284(April 23):604.

Sources:

Andrea Marzoli
Université de Genève
Department de Minéralogie
13 Rue des Maraichers
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

Paul R. Renne
Berkeley Geochronology Center
2455 Ridge Road
Berkeley, CA 94709

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 17, April 24, 1999, p. 260. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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