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TCD Scientists Find Surprising Cause of Devastating Mass Extinctions

September 2022

A new paper released by Micha Ruhl TCD Geology has been published widely by the media. The paper Reduced plate motion controlled timing of Early Jurassic Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province volcanism examines many of Earth’s past global climate change and mass extinction events.

Read the full paper here.

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