Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

  • S. D. Burgess,
  • J. D. Muirhead,
  • S. A. Bowring

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00083-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Author Summary Although the mass end-Permian extinction is linked to large igneous provinces, its trigger remains unclear. Here, the authors propose that the abrupt change from flood lavas to sills resulted in the heating of sediments and led to the release of large-scale greenhouse gases to drive the end-Permian extinction.