Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 22:29
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in open-ocean-facing settings than in epicontinental seas, indicating that open-ocean settings were more susceptible to the mass-extinction-causing agents.