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* There was no perennial snow cover and, hence, no glaciation in the Austral regions.
* There was no perennial snow cover and, hence, no glaciation in the Austral regions.
* Simulated sea-surface temperatures in the tropics ranged from 27°–[[temperature::34°C]]—high enough to kill reefs.<ref name=ch17r84>Thompson, J., Newton, C., 1989, Late Devonian mass extinction: episodic cooling or warming?, in McMillan, N., Embry, A., Glass, D., eds., Devonian of the World: Canadian Petroleum Society Memoir 14, vol. 3, p. 29–34.</ref>
* Simulated sea-surface temperatures in the tropics ranged from [[temperature::27°C]] to [[temperature::34°C]]—high enough to kill reefs.<ref name=ch17r84>Thompson, J., Newton, C., 1989, Late Devonian mass extinction: episodic cooling or warming?, in McMillan, N., Embry, A., Glass, D., eds., Devonian of the World: Canadian Petroleum Society Memoir 14, vol. 3, p. 29–34.</ref>
These results support a climatic cause for the extinctions.
These results support a climatic cause for the extinctions.