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experienced by this region have been over the last 55
million years, we can provide a geological context for those
developing predictions for the future climatic development
of this region.
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Ian Harding
School of Ocean & Earth Science, University of
Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, European
Way, Southampton, SO17 3RT.
ich@noc.soton.ac.uk
Cause of Mass Extinction...... “the earth
was hit by a giant ammonite”
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