GEOCHEMISTRY: Humongous Eruptions Linked to Dramatic Environmental Changes

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Science 27 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5824, p. 527
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5824.527

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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Humongous Eruptions Linked to Dramatic Environmental Changes

Richard A. Kerr

On page 587 of this issue of Science, geochronologists use precise rock dating to tie a massive eruption of basalt to the sudden 5°C warming 56 million years ago known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. (Read more.)

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REPORTS Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and the Opening of the Northeast Atlantic: Michael Storey, Robert A. Duncan, and Carl C. Swisher, III (27 April 2007)
Science 316 (5824), 587. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1135274]
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