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Dmitry A Ruban1

  • 1K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (the First Cossack University), Zemlyanoy Val Street 73, 109004 Moscow, Russia.

Life (Basel, Switzerland)
|November 18, 2020
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Global sea-level changes influenced fifteen major mass extinctions throughout the Paleozoic-Mesozoic eras. Many extinctions coincided with shifts in sea-level trends, potentially triggering marine biodiversity loss.

Keywords:
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