From The Daily Caller 1:02 PM 04/12/2019 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor The Permian basin, now the world’s most productive oil and gas field, is booming — so…
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End-Permian Extinction Due to Contact Metamorphism?
David Middleton Here’s a novel take on the Siberian Traps and the End-Permian extinction: Geology Massive underground magma pulse caused the world’s largest mass-extinction The end-Permian wiped out almost all…
The Permo-Triassic Extinction: A Question of Timing
Guest post by Mark Hladik Introduction In a 31 August 2011 article A blast from the gas in the past, Anthony Watts and company at Watts Up With That discussed a…
Gradually heading to hell in a handbasket just as bad as instant doom
From the National Science Foundation: Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The deadliest mass extinction of…
Mercury fingered in Permian-Triassic extinction
Hmmm. This sounds a bit like a sales pitch against “dirty coal” in support of the recent EPA Mercury ruling instead of regular geological research. I question this research claim…
Little oxygen hogs
Algae and bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, slowing recovery of marine life, say Stanford researchers After the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history – 250 million years ago…
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