Global Evidence for an End-Permian Mass Extinction Event

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Apr 2003

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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #8101

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We will present the global evidence for a Permian-Triassic impact event and re-examine some of the structural, seismic, gravity and well data for a proposed impact crater, the Bedout High, offshore northwestern Australia (Gorter, PESA News pp. 33--34, 1996). Gorter (1996) speculates that the Bedout High is the uplifted core (30 km) of a circular feature, some 220 km across, formed by the impact of a large bolide (comet or asteroid) with the earth near the end-Permian (K-Ar dating of volcanics ˜253 +/- 5 Ma). Accepting a possible impact origin for the Bedout structure, with the indicated dimensions, would have had profound effects on global climate and significant changes in lithotratigraphic, biostratigraphic and chemo-stratigraphic indicators as seen in several Permian-Triassic locations worldwide. Evidence for an impact of extraterrestrial origin is based upon several impact tracers including shocked metamorphosed grains, productivity collapse, helium-3, Mossbauer spectroscopy on nanophase Fe material, noble gases in magnetic fines and fullerenes with trapped noble gases from some end-Permian sites. These findings suggest that the Bedout structure and a possible newly discovered (˜100 km) secondary crater may be good candidates for an oceanic/continental impact(s) at the end Permian, triggering the most severe mass extinction in the history of life on the Earth.

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