Volcanic mercury and mutagenesis in land plants during the end-Triassic mass extinction

• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw4018
• Publication Date: 2019-10-23T23:14:10Z
• Authors: Sofie Lindström; Hamed Sanei; Bas van de Schoot...; Gunver K. Pedersen; Charles E. Lesher; Christian Tegner; Carmen Heunisch; Karen Dybkjær; Peter M. Outridge
• Keywords: 550; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous); Physiological; Volcanic Eruptions; Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; Stress; Extinction, Biological; 01 natural sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Stress, Physiological; Germany; SDG 14 - Life Below Water; General; Research Articles; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences; Ecology; Fossils; Geology; Extinction; Mercury; Biological Sciences; 15. Life on land; Biological; Mutagenesis; 13. Climate action; Earth Sciences; Ferns; Embryophyta

Genetically deformed plant spores indicate that mercury toxicity played a part in the mass extinction 201 million years ago.