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The Paraná basin in Brazil provides evidence that one of the world’s largest super-eruptions did not cause a mass extinction. (Shutterstock)

Huge volcanic eruption didn’t cause climate change and mass extinction 140 million years ago

Joshua Davies, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Brenda Chung Rocha, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and Nicolas Greber, University of Bern

Huge volcanic eruptions were once believed to be the cause of mass extinctions on Earth. However, new research has found that super eruptions did not necessarily result in mass extinctions.