Note: this topic is from 12/22/2011. Thanks decimon.
Posted on 12/22/2011 11:59:36 AM PST by decimon
A great explosive burning of coal set fire and made molten by lava bubbling from the Earth's mantle , looking akin to Kuwait's giant oil fires but lasting anywhere from centuries to millennia, could have been the cause of the world's most-devastating mass extinction, new research suggests.
The event, called the Great Dying, occurred 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period. "The Great Dying was the biggest of all the mass extinctions," said study researcher Darcy Ogden of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. "Estimates suggest up to 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of all land species were lost."
Researchers still debate the cause of this mass-extinction event, implicating everything from asteroids to volcanic eruptions to a decrease of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
And don’t forget, the subsequent earthquakes caused the methane hydrates and clathrates to emerge from the seabed and ignite. ;’)
Merry Christmas, gleeaikin, and thanks for the kind remarks!
search blam for article on impact crater in antarctica (and postulated partially australia). It certainly relates to the topic.
“search blam for article on impact crater in antarctica (and postulated partially australia). It certainly relates to the topic.”
cc to the above
Haven’t been out to research, yet will do when have time ... remembering those three bluish things coming in from the south toward the southern hemisphere due to arrive in late 2012. Has this been proved a hoax? Had read some interesting info early on about six months ago, and have not researched since. If anything is found (when checking) will post a link or two.
Note: this topic is from 12/22/2011. Thanks decimon.
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