Sixteen mass extinctions of the past 541 My correlated with 15 pulses of Large Igneous Province (LIP) volcanism and the 4 largest extraterrestrial impacts
Michael R. Rampino, K. Caldeira, Sedelia Rodriguez
Topics & Concepts
Flood basaltLarge igneous provinceExtinction eventGeologyBasaltPhanerozoicVolcanismPaleontologyLate Devonian extinctionGeochemistryEarth scienceMagmatismStructural basinCenozoicPopulationSociologyBiological dispersalDemographyCarboniferousTectonicsGeological and Geochemical AnalysisPaleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeochemistry and Elemental Analysis