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Members of a U.N.-sponsored research team with members from Appalachian State University’s Department of Geology have found evidence for catastrophic oceanographic events associated with climate change and a mass extinction 375 million years ago that devastated tropical marine ecosystems.
“This is the third most significant mass extinction and it was caused by plants. Unlike the dinosaur mass extinction, which was related to an asteroid impact, this one was environmentally related…”
