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The Ordovician is known as a period with high temperatures and high sea levels and a cooling event at the end of the period, leading to the Hirnantian glaciation and the first of the ‘big five’ mass extinctions of marine life. The cause of this cooling event remains unclear. Several authors correlate it with a drop in atmospheric pCO 2 to a threshold permitting the ice accumulation on the...
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