During the Carboniferous period, which occurred approximately 360 to 300 million years ago, most of Earth was covered in dense rainforests. These rainforests were sustained by a humid and tropical climate that lasted for most of the Carboniferous period. At the end of the period, Earth's climate became much colder and drier, leading to a wide-scale collapse of the rainforests and a significant loss of vegetation. How might the collapse of the Carboniferous rainforests have affected Earth's carbon cycle?
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The term "Carboniferous" comes from England, in reference to the rich deposits of coal that occur there.
The term "Carboniferous" is used throughout the world to describe this period, although in the United States it has been separated into the Mississippianand the Pennsylvanian Subsystems.
Carboniferous rainforest collapse:
It was a minor extinction event that happened around 300 million years ago. According to many research records, the collapse of carboniferous rainforest had altered the coal forests of Europe and America which could be possibly made the forests as islands.
Effects on carbon cycle because of the collapse:
It has been estimated that the concentration of carbon Dioxide level in the atmosphere was crashed to low in global level but caused heavy alteration in Pennsylvanian regions.