Talk:Permian–Triassic extinction event

I've just been watching a fascinating documentary about the permian extinction on TV, according to this fossil evidence recently (1999) discovered in Greenland shows that the extinction took place over some 100,000 years, and happened iin 3 distinct phases- the Siberian traps caused global warming of some 5 degrees which accounted for much extinction on land- this also caused the seas to warm, in turn killing much marine life, and at the same time releasing vast quantities of methane from the seabed (and presumably from the huge amounts of rotting matter from all the dead sea life), which in turn warmed the global temp. by another 5 degrees, causing a second mass land extinction. This theory was put together by a guy from Leeds university in England, and apparently has the most credibility at the present time (tho i'm only a lay pwerson and am just basing this on the program I've just seen) quercus robur

Well, go ahead and clean up the above and insert it into the article! :) --Dante Alighieri 23:31 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)

urg- bit tired at the moment- one for the 'to do' list- as you say, needs quite a bit of cleaning up to look presentable... I'm better at punk rock and one hit wonders minutiea when in this sort of frame of min ;-), quercus robur