image: This is a photo showing a misty morning along the Angara river, where extensive outcrops of rocks that were explosively erupted from the Siberian Traps are found. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 28, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Burgess at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'High-precision geochronology confirms voluminous magmatism before, during, and after Earth's most severe extinction.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Lindy Elkins-Tanton]