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Pangaea began to split apart, leading to massive volcanism and a runaway green house effect. What was one effect of these global catastrophies?

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These eruptions ejected massive amounts of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, enabling runaway global warming and related effects such as ocean acidification and anoxia, a loss of dissolved oxygen in water.

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