image: Sofie Lindström and fellow Senior researcher Gunver Pedersen (GEUS) during fieldwork in Sweden, sampling sediments that were deposited in forested mires and rivers at the onset of the end-Triassic mass extinction event 201.5 million years ago. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 23rd, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Lindström at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Volcanic mercury and mutagenesis in land plants during the end-Triassic mass extinction." view more
Credit: K. Dybkjær, GEUS