Massive Eruption of Magma May Have Contributed to Mass Extinction at End of Cretaceous (5 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Massive Eruption of Magma May Have Contributed to Mass Extinction at End of Cretaceous (5 of 7)

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A deep-sea octopus explores the brand-new lava flows that erupted at Axial Seamount in 2015. At the time, this was probably the youngest seafloor on the planet. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 07 Feb. 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.S. Byrnes at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., and colleagues was titled, "Anomalous K-Pg-aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced mid-ocean ridge magmatism."

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[Credit: Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University, and ROV Jason, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]

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