article_snippet.sent: To make these conclusions, a team led by Dr Matthew Clarkson and Professor Rachel Wood analysed rocks in the United Arab Emirates (pictured) - which were on the ocean floor at the time of the extinction.
article_snippet.sent: From this a team led by Dr Matthew Clarkson and Professor Rachel Wood developed a climate model because the rocks preserve a detailed record of changing oceanic conditions .
article_snippet.sent: To make these conclusions, a team led by Dr Matthew Clarkson and Professor Rachel Wood analysed rocks in the United Arab Emirates - which were on the ocean floor at the time - to develop a climate model to work out what drove the extinction.
article_snippet.sent: The rocks preserve a detailed record of changing oceanic conditions at the time. '
article_snippet.sent: Dr Clarkson from the University of Edinburgh's school of geosciences's research follows similar analysis  in Italy earlier this year by geologists from Imperial College London (ICL).
highlights_snippet.sent: Geologists studied rocks in the United Arab Emirates that would have been on the ocean floor during the Great Dying 252 million years ago .
  