The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis.

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Reichow, Marc K., Pringle, M. S., Al'Mukhamedov, A. I., Allen, M. B., Andreichev, V. L., Buslov, M. M., Davies, C. E., Fedoseev, G. S., Fitton, J. G., Inger, S., Medvedev, A. Ya., Mitchell, C, Puchkov, V. N., Safonova, I. Yu., Scott, R. A., Saunders, A. D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2009
• Subjects: Tunguska; Taimyr; Vorkuta
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X08006389; http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4204; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.030

We present new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar ages on feldspar and biotite separates to establish the age, duration and extent of the larger Siberian Traps volcanic province. Samples include basalts and gabbros from Noril'sk, the Lower Tunguska area on the Siberian craton, the Taimyr Peninsula, the K...