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Arizona Rock Offers Clues to Chaotic Earth of 200 Million Years Ago – Mirage News

AUSTIN, Texas – A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events…

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AUSTIN, Texas – A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth’s ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs.
The quarter-mile-long core is from an important part of the Triassic period when life on our planet endured a series of cataclysmic events: mountain-sized asteroids struck Earth at least three times, chains of volcanoes erupted to choke the sky with greenhouse gases and tectonic movem…

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