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Older Volcanic Eruptions Volcanoes were more destructive in ancient history, not because they were bigger, but because the c
Older Volcanic Eruptions Volcanoes were more destructive in ancient history, not because they were bigger, but because the c
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2014-05-13
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Older Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanoes were more destructive in ancient history, not because they were bigger, but because the carbon dioxide they released wiped out life with greater ease.
Paul Wignall from the University of Leeds was investigating the link between volcanic eruptions and mass extinctions. Not all volcanic eruptions killed off large numbers of animals, but all the mass extinctions over the past 300 million years coincided with huge formations of volcanic rock. To his surprise, the older the massive volcanic eruptions were, the more damage they seemed to do. He calculated the "killing efficiency" for these volcanoes by comparing the proportion of life they killed off with the volume of lava(熔岩)that they produced. He found that size for size, older eruptions were at least 10 times as effective at wiping out life as their more recent rivals.
The Permian(二叠纪)extinction, for example, which happened 250 million years ago, is marked by floods of volcanic rock in Siberia that cover an area roughly the size of western Europe. Those volcanoes are thought to have pumped out about 10 gigatonnes(十亿吨)of carbon as carbon dioxide. The global warming that followed wiped out 80 percent of all marine genera(种类)at the time, and it took 5 million years for the planet to recover. Yet 60 million years ago, there was another huge amount of volcanic activity and global warming but no mass extinction. Some animals did disappear but things returned to normal within ten thousands of years. "The most recent ones hardly have an effect at all, " Wignall says. He ignored the extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, because many scientists believe it was primarily caused by the impact of an asteroid(小行星). He thinks that older volcanoes had more killing power because more recent life forms were better adapted to dealing with increased levels of CO
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. Vincent Courtillot, director of the Paris Geophysical Institute in France, says that Wignall’ s idea is provocative. But he says it is incredibly hard to do these sorts of calculations. He points out that the killing power of volcanic eruptions depends on how long they lasted. And it is impossible to tell whether the huge blasts lasted for thousands or millions of years. He also adds that it is difficult to estimate how much lava prehistoric volcanoes produced, and that lava volume may not necessarily correspond to carbon dioxide emissions.
What is Vincent Courtillot’ s attitude toward Wignall’ s idea?
选项
A、Positive.
B、Negative.
C、Neutral.
D、Unclear.
答案
B
解析
最后一段表明了Vincent Courtillot的观点,根据最后一段第一句可知,他认为Wignall的观点具有争议性,因此他对Wignall的观点是持否定态度的。provocative挑衅的,煽动性的,激起争端的。
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