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Sediments Reveal The Ancient Ocean During a Mass Extinction Event

About 183 million years ago, volcanic activity in modern South Africa unleashed an estimated 20,500 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ocean-atmosphere system over a period of 300 to […]

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