image: This is a photo of a mountain of Siberian Traps lavas being reflected in the calm waters of a Siberian lake. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 28, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Burgess at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'High-precision geochronology confirms voluminous magmatism before, during, and after Earth's most severe extinction.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Dougal Jerram]