Slowing continental plate motion has controlled the timing of Earth's largest volcanic events

Slowing continental plate motion has controlled the timing of Earth’s largest volcanic events

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain Scientists have shed new light on the timing and probable cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheavals that they triggered some of the extinction events the most devastating in the history of the Earth. Surprisingly, the new research, published today …

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