Site of Limestone in South China (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Site of Limestone in South China

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A distant view of the field area in the Nanpanjiang Basin in south China where limestone contained evidence of a slow recovery of marine animal populations after the mass extinction 250 million years ago.

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Katja Meyer, Stanford University

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