A unique geochemical record at the Permian/Triassic boundary

@article{Holser1989AUG,
  title={A unique geochemical record at the Permian/Triassic boundary},
  author={William T. Holser and Hans Peter Sch{\"o}nlaub and M. Jr. Attrep and Klaus Boeckelmann and Peter Klein and Mordeckai Magaritz and Charles J. Orth and Alois Fenninger and Catherine Jenny and Martin Kr{\'a}lik and Hermann Johann Mauritsch and Edwin Pak and J.-M. Schramm and Karl Stattegger and Rupert Schm{\"o}ller},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1989},
  volume={337},
  pages={39-44}
}
A 330-metre core drilled through the marine Permian/Triassic boundary in the Carnic Alps of Austria allows closely correlated studies of geochemistry, petrography and palaeontology across the boundary. The isotope shifts and metal concentrations are extended, multiple and complex, and do not resemble those seen at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Both the carbon isotope shifts and the chemical events (including an indium anomaly) may have causes related to a major regression of the sea. 
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