"Nearly 100 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from the oceans and led to elevated #marine #extinction levels that affected the entire globe.

Now, in a pair of complementary new studies, two Northwestern University-led teams of geoscientists report new findings on the chronology and character of events that led to this occurrence, known as #Ocean Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2),..cont."

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https://phys.org/news/2023-01-malformed-seashells-ancient-sediment-clues.html

Malformed seashells, ancient sediment provide clues about Earth's past

Nearly 100 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from the oceans and led to elevated marine extinction levels that affected the entire globe.

Phys.org