: Earths most devastating mass extinctions through slowing of continental plates: Study #IndiaNEWS #Science New Delhi, Sept 15 (ANI): Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of

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Earths most devastating mass extinctions through slowing of continental plates: Study #IndiaNEWS #Science
New Delhi, Sept 15 (ANI): Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earths history. Surprisingly the new research, published today in the journal Science Advances, suggests a slowing of continental plate movement was the critical event that enabled magma to rise to the Earths surface and deliver the devastating knock-on impacts. Earths history has been marked by major volcanic events, called Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) the largest of which have caused major increases in atmospheric carbon emissions that warmed Earths climate, drove unprecedented changes to ecosystems, and resulted in mass extinctions on land and in the oceans.

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