What Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth?

A correlation between mass extinctions and certain volcanic episodes known as "large igneous provinces" has been emerging over the last decade or two; this paper quantifies that correlation and suggests that there may have been an extinction at the end of the Cretaceous even without the asteroid impact.

All the computational work (and plotting) in here was done with Julia, including the parallel calculations with MPI.jl and VectorizedRNG.jl