The Day the Seas Died -A Galaxy Classic


	The Day the Seas Died -A Galaxy Classic

tabsey

2-22-2008 8:25 AM

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tabsey says:

And I thought they had just missed the boat.

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2-22-2008 12:27 PM

Kauaiguy

Well, someone appears to have got a picture of it.

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The "Great Dying" at the end of the Permian period, some 250 million
years ago, was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinctions in
Earth’s fossil record. More than half of the families of living things
died out, and as many as 95 percent of the planet’s marine species were
lost. At the same time, perhaps 70 percent of the land’s reptile,
amphibian, insect, and plant families became extinct. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-day-the-sea.html"><P>This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon-cycle changes, according to Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/the-day-the-sea.html"><P>
What caused the calamity has long been a source of scientific
controversy, due both to the extreme remoteness of the event, and to an absence of geological evidence – the world’s seas retreated at the same
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