Open AccessA Little-Known Mass Extinction and the “Dawn of the Modern World”
Author(s) -
Scott Norris
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo151372
Subject(s) - extinction event , extinction (optical mineralogy) , history , astrobiology , geography , geology , paleontology , sociology , physics , demography , biological dispersal , population
Volcanic eruptions in what is now western Canada may have triggered a million years of rain and a mass extinction that launched the reign of the dinosaurs.