Thomas J. Algeo, University of Cincinnati (IMAGE)

University of Cincinnati

Thomas J. Algeo, University of Cincinnati

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Around 250 million years ago, most life on Earth was wiped out in an extinction known as the “Great Dying.” A team led by University of Cincinnati geologist Thomas J. Algeo, publishing in the GSA Bulletin, finds that the end came slowly from thousands of centuries of volcanic activity.

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