article_snippet.sent: Huge volumes of viscous basalt lava covered an area roughly seven times the size of France, explained the Natural History Museum, and sulphur dioxide from large volcanic eruptions caused vinegar-like acid rain to cover the Earth.
article_snippet.sent: Huge volumes of viscous basalt lava covered an area roughly seven times the size of France, explained the Natural History Museum, and sulphur dioxide from large volcanic eruptions caused vinegar-like acid rain to cover the Earth.
article_snippet.sent: Similar analysis in Italy found evidence of vinegar-like acid rain caused by the sulphur dioxide in 250 million-year-old rocks.
article_snippet.sent: geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) discovered evidence of vinegar-like acid rain caused by the sulphur dioxide in 250 million-year-old rocks from Italy's Vigo Meano region. '
article_snippet.sent: For the first time, we can say that soils from this time had an acidity similar to that of vinegar,' Mark Sephton from ICL said.
article_snippet.sent: Our data fits the idea that acid rain caused the microbes to cease functioning,' said Henk Visscher, a palaeoecologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
article_snippet.sent: geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) found that sulphur emissions from massive volcano eruptions were significant enough to create extremely acidic rain, which would have affected plant growth.
article_snippet.sent: geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) believe such acidity may have been sufficient to disfigure plants and stunt geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) growth, contributing to geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) ultimate extinction.
article_snippet.sent: After the eruptions ended, geologists from Imperial College London (ICL) found believe pH levels in rain bounced back, becoming less acidic within one year.