Getting Close to the Mass Extinction (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Getting Close to the Mass Extinction

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A geologist studies the exact line of the mass extinction at the end of the Permian. A few metres above her head is the Triassic, and most life had disappeared by that time.

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Mike Benton, University of Bristol

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