Did Great Salt Lakes trigger mass extinction?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 14:28
in Earth & Climate
During the end-Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago, nearly 90 percent of life on Earth was extinguished, and everything from magnetic field reversals to supervolcanoes has been invoked to explain it.
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