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Smoking Gun of Permian Extinction (1 of 3)

Caption: Dr. Stephen Grasby at Buchanan Lake, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, where recent discovery of coal ash layers provide the first direct evidence of significant coal fires at the Latest Permian Extinction.

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