Geologic findings undermine theories of Permian mass extinction timing
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 10:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
New scientific findings by geologist Robert Gastaldo of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and colleagues call into question popular theories about the largest mass extinction in Earth's history. A paper reporting the results by Gastaldo, South African scientist Johann Neveling, and two 2008 Colby undergraduate students, C. Kittinger 'Kit' Clark and Sophie Newbury, appears in the March 2009 issue of GEOLOGY...
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