The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination

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Sat Nov 21 08:03:48 EST 2009

Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings
during mass extinctions. Science Daily, November 20, 2009
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119194128.htm

Other web pages:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoc-pfe111909.php
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/paleontologists-find-extinction-rates-higher-open-ocean-settings-during-mass-extinctions-27417.html

The paper is:

Miller, A. I. and M. Foote, 2009, Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean
Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination. Science.
vol. 326, no. 5956, pp. 1106 - 1109. DOI: 10.1126/science.1180061
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/326/5956/1106

Yours,

Paul H.