Plume winter scenario for biosphere catastrophe: The Permo-triassic boundary case

Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 409-440

  Isozaki, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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