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Mercury Pollution and Mass Extinction: Tracing Toxic Legacies From Earth’s Volcanic Past

New research shows that mercury pollution from volcanism caused prolonged ecological disturbances and plant stress for over a million years following the end-Triassic mass extinction. The widely accepted link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic mass extinction 201 million

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