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Copper-rich minerals indicating widespread volcanic activity

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Copper-rich minerals indicating widespread volcanic activity at the end-Permian mass extinction in different regions in southern China (A: Taoshujing locality; B: Lubei locality; C: Guanbachong; D: Taoshujing locality; E: Longmendong locality). The minerals are all copper sulfides, mostly Malachite--the minerals' green patches.

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H. Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology.

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