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The Putorana Plateau is composed of Siberian Traps. One of the major questions is whether the Siberian Traps were directly responsible for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event that occurred 250 million years ago, [13] or if they were themselves caused by some other, larger event, such as an asteroid impact.
Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions [23] from the Siberian Traps, [24] an impact event (the Wilkes Land Crater), [25] an Anoxic event, [26] an Ice age, [27] or other possible causes End-Capitanian extinction event: 260 Ma: Volcanism from the Emeishan Traps, [28] resulting in global cooling and other effects Olson's Extinction: 270 Ma Unknown.
The Siberian Traps was a vast area of volcanic activity in Eurasia that led to the biggest mass extinction 252 million years ago. The distant mountains are remains of basalt lava flows, and the ...
The Siberian Traps were formed by one of the largest-known volcanic events of the last 251 million years of Earth's geological history. Their activity continued for a million years and some scientists consider it a possible cause of the "Great Dying" about 250 million years ago, [21] – estimated to have killed 90% of species existing at the time.
Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth. A worm has been revived after 46,000 ...
The Siberian Traps are thought to have played a significant role in the Permian–Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago. Formation of the Emeishan Traps began 260 million years ago. The Late Devonian extinction occurs about 374 million years ago.
Rajmahal Traps (118) [u] Kerguelen hotspot Aptian: c. 125.0 Selli Event (~120) [s] Ontong Java Plateau (125–120) [r] Louisville hotspot: Barremian: c. 129.4 High Arctic LIP (130-120) [q] Hauterivian: c. 132.9 Abor volcanics (135) Kerguelen hotspot Valanginian: c. 139.8 Paraná and Etendeka traps (138-128) [v] Tristan hotspot: Berriasian: c ...
During the eruption of the Siberian Traps, some 5 to 16 million cubic kilometers (1.2 to 3.8 million cubic miles) of magma penetrated the crust, covering an area of 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles), equal to 62% of the area of the contiguous states of the United States.