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Response: Late Permian Extinctions

Knoll, Andrew H. and Bambach, Richard K. and Canfield, Donald and Grotzinger, John P. (1996) Response: Late Permian Extinctions. Science, 274 (5292). pp. 1551-1552. ISSN 0036-8075. doi:10.1126/science.274.5292.1551b. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130204-102912278

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Abstract

We agree with Caldeira that the mechanism we proposed (1) to account for large decreases in the C isotopic composition of surface sea water during Neoproterozoic and Permo-Triassic can work only if the negative excursions lasted for less than 10^6 years. It is likely that the Permo-Triassic boundary excursion persisted no longer than the 10^5-year time scale permitted in Kump's model (2). At the proposed Permo- Triassic boundary stratotype at Meishan, China, the stratigraphic interval containing the excursion is 1 meter thick (3); an earlier negative excursion described by Jin (4) from a Capitanian-Wujiapingian boundary section in southwestern China is confined to a comparably thin stratigraphic interval. For the one Neoproterozoic negative excursion closely constrained by radiometric data, uranium-lead zircon dates on volcanic rocks just below and just above the event are the same to within the measurement error of one million years (5).


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Knoll, Andrew H.0000-0003-1308-8585
Grotzinger, John P.0000-0001-9324-1257
Additional Information:© 1996 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 2 October 1996; accepted 1 November 1996.
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DOI:10.1126/science.274.5292.1551b
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