Greenhouse Gas and the 200-Million Year Old Mass Extinction
28.09.2021
A study conducted at Unipd reveals that the release of a massive amount of methane entrapped in the rocks of the Amazonian basins may have occurred during the end-Triassic mass extinction. About 1 million cubic kilometres of basaltic magma intruded and heated organic-rich sedimentary rocks, resulting in the release of methane