How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world's greatest climate catastrophe
- Written by: Timothy Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geology, University of New England
Artwork by Katrina Kenny © 2022, Author providedSome 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming.
To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event in which a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia spewed huge volumes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
However,...