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Plume Winter Scenario for Biosphere Catastrophe: The Permo-Triassic Boundary Case

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Isozaki, Y. (2007). Plume Winter Scenario for Biosphere Catastrophe: The Permo-Triassic Boundary Case. In: Yuen, D.A., Maruyama, S., Karato, SI., Windley, B.F. (eds) Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5750-2_14

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