funding of geochemical analyses at the Environmental Analytical Facility at University of Massachusetts at Boston(NSF Award#09-42371,DBI:MRI-RI2,to Robyn Hannigan and Alan Christian);support by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship(DGE13491356104);the UMass Boston Chancellor's Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship。
The Bálvány North Permian-Triassic boundary sediments were deposited on a carbonate platform in the tropical part of the western Paleo Tethys ocean.The overall elemental geochemistry of the detailed two-metre-thick ...
The latest Permian extinction(252 Myr ago)was the most severe in the geologic record.On land,widespread Late Permian gymnosperm/seed-fern dominated forests appear to have suffered rapid and almost complete destruction...