Triassic inferno: Fires raged across Europe for millennia during past global warming

Phys.org Tuesday 21 July 2026, 13:20 UTC 1 min read

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The end-Triassic mass extinction, 201 million years ago, is linked to volcanism that resulted from the break-up of Pangea and which pumped out vast amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, causing extreme global warming of 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. As a result, tree-dominated vegetation collapsed and the highly disturbed landscapes were colonized by ferns that formed savannahs across large swaths of what is now Northwest Europe.

Europe (LOCATION) Pangea (ORG) Northwest Europe (LOCATION)

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