Nature Communications (May 2017)

End-Triassic mass extinction started by intrusive CAMP activity

  • J.H.F.L. Davies,
  • A. Marzoli,
  • H. Bertrand,
  • N. Youbi,
  • M. Ernesto,
  • U. Schaltegger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15596
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The cause of the end-Triassic extinction remains controversial. Here, the authors present U-Pb age data showing that magmatic activity occurred 100 kyr before the earliest known eruptions, which links to changes in climate and biotic records indicating the importance of understanding the intrusive record.