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SUBMITTER: Burgess SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948271 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burgess Seth D SD Bowring Samuel S Shen Shu-zhong SZ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140210 9
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 Section and Point for the Permian-Triassic boundary at Meishan, China, define an age model for the extinction and allow exploration of the links between global environmental perturbation, carbon cycle ...[more]