Quotes About Permian

The meteor mentioned in this book that caused the massive Wilkes Crater in Antarctica is believed to have triggered the Permian mass extinction, which came within a hairsbreadth of ending all life.

Texas and the prolific Permian Basin is the epicentre of the development of new pipelines',

The Paleozoic was followed by the Permian extinction, when 95 percent of all life on Earth—plants and animals on both land and sea—died. Just like that. Just when they were beginning to get the hang of it. (To be fair, the period of extinction lasted millions of years, so "just like that" is an exaggeration, but scientists still don't know for sure why it happened.)

The Permian Basin sprawls across seventy-five thousand square miles in West Texas down into southeastern New Mexico.

It draws its name from rocks that are characteristic of the Permian geologic age, which ended with the "great extinction" that wiped out most living creatures about 250 million years ago.

In 1974, the basin—really a collection of several different giant oil fields—reached its peak, providing almost a quarter of total U.S. oil supplies.7 But thereafter output in the Permian began a precipitous decline, hitting a low point in 2007.