Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 14:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth's most severe extinction event. The results of their study have been recently published in the journal Geology.