SciShow: The Siberian Traps: A 250 Million Year Old Crime Scene

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Content of the Lesson: The event that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago might be the most famous mass extinction ever, but it's not the only one in Earth’s history, nor is it the worst... not by a long shot. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/brv.12128 http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Svensen_EPSL_2009.pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2017.0080 https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1475 https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen2a.html https://earth.stanford.edu/news/what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/permian/ https://www.britannica.com/science/Permian-Period/Paleoclimate#ref69920 http://news.mit.edu/2018/permian-period-extinction-0919 https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/understanding-extinction/mass-extinctions/end-permian-extinction/ http://news.mit.edu/2011/mass-extinction-1118 http://news.mit.edu/2015/siberian-traps-end-permian-extinction-0916 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534703000934 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00083-9 http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/leveson/core/topics/time/froshlec8.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992638/ Image Sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45617735@N07/4420307678/in/photostream/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russland_Relief.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimetrodon_grandis.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/glossopteris-fossil-extinct-seed-fern-from-permian-mh2qi6e https://www.videoblocks.com/video/flying-towards-asteroid-field-and-colliding-with-asteroid-rwhlhw- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extent_of_Siberian_traps-ru.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13025 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/tungurahua-volcano-erupting-march-2013-ecuador-vnc31wt5eikqg65jk https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Igneous_Sill_Intrusion_in_Yellowstone_National_Park_Wyoming_USA.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horton_Bluff_mid-Carboniferous_sill.JPG https://www.videoblocks.com/video/spraying-cleanser-from-yellow-aerosol-can-super-slow-motion-shot-e1db-rcplim7u0zh0 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/4k-aerial-slow-mo-shot-of-waves-crashing-against-rocky-shore-rhcynnjpwj94il0xn


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