Space Daily·3 min read·medium
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out rou
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Researchers have identified that the end-Permian mass extinction was likely triggered by magma intrusions into carbon-rich sediments rather than just surface volcanic eruptions. This process released massive amounts of greenhouse gases, causing rapid climate change and biological collapse.
The end-Permian extinction was not a single volcano exploding on one bad day. It was a long volcanic province, a changing climate system, and a marine biosphere pushed past several limits at once.
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