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Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China (2009)
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Wignall, P. B., Sun, Y., Bond, D. P. G., Izon, G., Newton, R. J., Védrine, S., Widdowson, M., Ali, J. R., Lai, X., Jiang, H., Cope, H., & Bottrell, S. H. (2009). Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China. Science, 324(5931), 1179-1182. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1171956

The 260-million-year-old Emeishan volcanic province of southwest China overlies and is interbedded with Middle Permian carbonates that contain a record of the Guadalupian mass extinction. Sections in the region thus provide an opportunity to directly... Read More about Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China.