High-precision timeline for Earth's most severe extinction

The end-Permian mass extinction was the most severe loss of marine and terrestrial biota in the last 542 My. Understanding its cause and the controls on extinction/recovery dynamics depends on an accurate and precise age model. U-Pb zircon dates for five volcanic ash beds from the Global Stratotype...

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Main Authors: Bowring, Samuel A., Shen, Shu-zhong, Burgess, Seth
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91514
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9722-469X