The Permian-Triassic Boundary - The Rocks of Utah

The Great Dying! In this episode we head out to the Permian-Triassic Boundary and try to discover what caused Earth's Largest Mass Extinction event, 252 million years ago.

After 4-months of research, I'm excited to finally release this exciting video!

A pre-print of the scientific paper is available at: https://eartharxiv.org/khd9y

I've submitted this research to the journal "Global and Planetary Change" for peer review.

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A gratefully thanks to M. S. Gustin and M. V. Estrada at the University of Nevada-Reno for running the Hg analysis, S. Lyman for productive discussion of Hg detection and E. Swanner for productive discussion of pyrite formation. A. Lonero and D. Newell for help running samples through the ICP-MS and Mass-Spec. at Utah State University in Logan, and L. Jolley, Z. Jolley-Burger, and F. Jolley-Burger for help collecting samples in the field.

Personal funds were used to conducted the research.