The material discusses several theories that might cause a mass-extinction at the end of the Triassic period. While the reading looks at the topic from one perspective, the listening challenges certain points outlined in the reading passage.
Firstly, the reading details specific points regarding this topic. Namely, sea-level fluctuation might cause this extinction. Next, global cooling due to volcanic activity might involve in a mass-extinction. Finally, an asteroid hit the Earth might cause big destruction.
Conversely, the lecture challenges the points. One specific contradiction is coastal and shallow-water habitats usually are adapted to environmental changes; furthermore, the sea-level fluctuation was quite gradually, so sea level should go down much more suddenly to have any negative impact on the environment. In addition to that, sulfur dioxide that causes global cooling after any volcanic activity stay for a short period, becasue it could be cleared out by combining with water and fall as rains. As a result, sulfur dioxide should stay long enough to cause mass-extinction. One final point, there are no asteroids craters dated back when this mass-extinction happened; on the other hand, there are other craters that dated back 12 million years before the extinction occurred.
The material discusses several theories that
might
cause
a mass-extinction at the
end
of the Triassic period. While the reading looks at the topic from one perspective, the listening challenges certain
points
outlined in the reading passage.
Firstly
, the reading
details
specific
points
regarding this topic.
Namely
, sea-level fluctuation
might
cause
this extinction.
Next
, global cooling due to volcanic activity
might
involve in a mass-extinction.
Finally
, an asteroid hit the Earth
might
cause
big
destruction.
Conversely
, the lecture challenges the
points
. One specific contradiction is coastal and shallow-water habitats
usually
are adapted
to environmental
changes
;
furthermore
, the sea-level fluctuation was quite
gradually
,
so
sea level should go down much more
suddenly
to have any
negative
impact on the environment.
In addition
to that, sulfur dioxide that
causes
global cooling after any volcanic activity stay for a short period,
becasue
it could
be cleared
out by combining with water and fall as rains.
As a result
, sulfur dioxide should stay long
enough
to
cause
mass-extinction. One final
point
, there are no asteroids craters dated back when this mass-extinction happened;
on the other hand
, there are other craters that dated back 12 million years
before
the extinction occurred.