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Extinction

Geographical studies revealing an ancient historical plot

Foreboding stories tell where present landforms and depth of the seas begot

Deluge and dismay from natural causes are ending archaic flora and fauna

Molten and magma spew forth leaving ashes; life blinking away in a series of flashes

Violent tremors shifting tectonic plates reshaping the crust of the globe

Cataclysmic events triggering massive species wide death throes

Seemingly iniquitous removing life on such an extraordinary scale

Survival of the fittest meaning nothing when only the fortunate prevail

The supercontinent now fractured pressures align terrain dispersed

Thirty million years henceforth this chaos until recovery of life on earth

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

To what degree can we conclude a cause of this epic occurrence

Perhaps millennia of flood basalt disgorged from buried earthen vents

Hypothesised radiation from a supernova scrutinised as simple conjecture

Further doubt cast on the remnants of an arctic archaic meteorite

A rift causing mountains to sink into the sea

This mass of water, now shallowing

Terra firma breaking apart lifting beneath

Eradication encompassing

Violent tremors shifting tectonic plates reshaping the crust of the globe

Cataclysmic events triggering massive species wide death throes

Survival of the fittest meaning nothing when only the fortunate prevail

The supercontinent now fractured pressures align terrain dispersed

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

Siphon the Tethys

Extinction

Pangea obliterated

Causing an end to this Permian life

Thirty five million years until there is renewed life