Assertion: mass extinction | /r/CapableOf | take place
Facets:
value: very quickly
type: MANNER
value: right now
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction took place about 200 million years ago.
text: While prior mass extinctions occurred long before recorded history, some scientists believe that a mass extinction is taking place right now.
text: Approximately 439 million years ago at the termination of the Ordovician and the beginniing of the Silurian a mass extinction took place.
text: These types of extinction most often take place over a much longer period of time compared to mass extinction, which can take place very quickly.
text: (The largest mass extinction took place at the end of the Permian Period and resulted in the loss of about 90 percent of existing species; see also Permian extinction.)