Let’s find out if you were dead or thriving at the end of the Permian Period, 252 million years ago.
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References:
Peter Brannen – The Ends of the World
Plants/terrestrial ecosystems less affected: ttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00744-3
Siberian Traps yes; abrupt no: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09620-0
Global warming → marine anoxia (esp at high latitudes):
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction#gs.fvtgbc
Coal/carbon contributed – location-specific:
https://sum.cuny.edu/end-permian-extinction-scientists-siberia-city-college/
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-end-permian-extinction-earth-species-instantaneous.html#:~:text=The%20end%2DPermian%20mass%20extinction,end%20of%20the%20Permian%20Period.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018141844.htm
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