# Volcanoes & Mass Extinctions

Explain how large igneous provinces (LIPs) — massive outpourings of lava over millions of years — caused global warming and ocean acidification that drove mass extinctions; connect the Siberian Traps to the end-Permian extinction and the Deccan Traps to the end-Cretaceous event; explore how hydrothermal vents on the early Earth may have been the cradle of life; understand volcanoes as both destroyers and creators in the history of life

Builds on: Hazard Assessment & Evacuation (hard, https://ai.page/c/hazard-assessment-and-evacuation/en.md), The Rock Cycle (hard, https://ai.page/c/the-rock-cycle-science/en.md)

Concept id: volcanoes-and-mass-extinctions. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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