image: This is a photo taken from atop a sill of the Siberian Traps, looking out at mountains composed of similar lavas and sills. 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: Seth Burgess]