The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary
The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary similar to 65.5 million years ago marks one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. The extinction event coincided with a large asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, and occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India....
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ftunivleuven:oai:lirias.kuleuven.be:123456789/264213 2023-05-15T17:32:24+02:00 The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Schulte, Peter Alegret, Laia Arenillas, Ignacio Arz, Jose A Barton, Penny J Bown, Paul R Bralower, Timothy J Christeson, Gail L Claeys, Philippe Cockell, Charles S Collins, Gareth S Deutsch, Alexander Goldin, Tamara J Goto, Kazuhisa Grajales-Nishimura, Jose M Grieve, Richard A. F Gulick, Sean P. S Johnson, Kirk R Kiessling, Wolfgang Koeberl, Christian Kring, David A MacLeod, Kenneth G Matsui, Takafumi Melosh, Jay Montanari, Alessandro Morgan, Joanna V Neal, Clive R Nichols, Douglas J Norris, Richard D Pierazzo, Elisabetta Ravizza, Greg Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario Reimold, Wolf Uwe Robin, Eric Salge, Tobias Speijer, Robert Sweet, Arthur R Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime Vajda, Vivi Whalen, Michael T Willumsen, Pi S 2010-03 5293792 bytes 415554 bytes application/pdf https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/264213 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/1//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_Science%29.pdf https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/2//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_SOM_Science%29.pdf en eng Amer assoc advancement science Science vol:327 issue:5970 pages:1214-1218 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/264213 0036-8075 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/1//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_Science%29.pdf https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/2//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_SOM_Science%29.pdf 106537;public 106539;public western north-atlantic k-p boundary tertiary boundary yucatan peninsula new-zealand el kef crater event perturbations survivorship Article IT 106539;Article 106537;Article 2010 ftunivleuven 2015-12-22T15:59:22Z The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary similar to 65.5 million years ago marks one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. The extinction event coincided with a large asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, and occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India. Here, we synthesize records of the global stratigraphy across this boundary to assess the proposed causes of the mass extinction. Notably, a single ejecta-rich deposit compositionally linked to the Chicxulub impact is globally distributed at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The temporal match between the ejecta layer and the onset of the extinctions and the agreement of ecological patterns in the fossil record with modeled environmental perturbations (for example, darkness and cooling) lead us to conclude that the Chicxulub impact triggered the mass extinction. status: published Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic KU Leuven: Lirias New Zealand |
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western north-atlantic k-p boundary tertiary boundary yucatan peninsula new-zealand el kef crater event perturbations survivorship Schulte, Peter Alegret, Laia Arenillas, Ignacio Arz, Jose A Barton, Penny J Bown, Paul R Bralower, Timothy J Christeson, Gail L Claeys, Philippe Cockell, Charles S Collins, Gareth S Deutsch, Alexander Goldin, Tamara J Goto, Kazuhisa Grajales-Nishimura, Jose M Grieve, Richard A. F Gulick, Sean P. S Johnson, Kirk R Kiessling, Wolfgang Koeberl, Christian Kring, David A MacLeod, Kenneth G Matsui, Takafumi Melosh, Jay Montanari, Alessandro Morgan, Joanna V Neal, Clive R Nichols, Douglas J Norris, Richard D Pierazzo, Elisabetta Ravizza, Greg Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario Reimold, Wolf Uwe Robin, Eric Salge, Tobias Speijer, Robert Sweet, Arthur R Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime Vajda, Vivi Whalen, Michael T Willumsen, Pi S The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
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The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary similar to 65.5 million years ago marks one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. The extinction event coincided with a large asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, and occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India. Here, we synthesize records of the global stratigraphy across this boundary to assess the proposed causes of the mass extinction. Notably, a single ejecta-rich deposit compositionally linked to the Chicxulub impact is globally distributed at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The temporal match between the ejecta layer and the onset of the extinctions and the agreement of ecological patterns in the fossil record with modeled environmental perturbations (for example, darkness and cooling) lead us to conclude that the Chicxulub impact triggered the mass extinction. status: published |
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Schulte, Peter Alegret, Laia Arenillas, Ignacio Arz, Jose A Barton, Penny J Bown, Paul R Bralower, Timothy J Christeson, Gail L Claeys, Philippe Cockell, Charles S Collins, Gareth S Deutsch, Alexander Goldin, Tamara J Goto, Kazuhisa Grajales-Nishimura, Jose M Grieve, Richard A. F Gulick, Sean P. S Johnson, Kirk R Kiessling, Wolfgang Koeberl, Christian Kring, David A MacLeod, Kenneth G Matsui, Takafumi Melosh, Jay Montanari, Alessandro Morgan, Joanna V Neal, Clive R Nichols, Douglas J Norris, Richard D Pierazzo, Elisabetta Ravizza, Greg Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario Reimold, Wolf Uwe Robin, Eric Salge, Tobias Speijer, Robert Sweet, Arthur R Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime Vajda, Vivi Whalen, Michael T Willumsen, Pi S |
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Schulte, Peter Alegret, Laia Arenillas, Ignacio Arz, Jose A Barton, Penny J Bown, Paul R Bralower, Timothy J Christeson, Gail L Claeys, Philippe Cockell, Charles S Collins, Gareth S Deutsch, Alexander Goldin, Tamara J Goto, Kazuhisa Grajales-Nishimura, Jose M Grieve, Richard A. F Gulick, Sean P. S Johnson, Kirk R Kiessling, Wolfgang Koeberl, Christian Kring, David A MacLeod, Kenneth G Matsui, Takafumi Melosh, Jay Montanari, Alessandro Morgan, Joanna V Neal, Clive R Nichols, Douglas J Norris, Richard D Pierazzo, Elisabetta Ravizza, Greg Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario Reimold, Wolf Uwe Robin, Eric Salge, Tobias Speijer, Robert Sweet, Arthur R Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime Vajda, Vivi Whalen, Michael T Willumsen, Pi S |
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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
title_full |
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
title_fullStr |
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary |
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chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the cretaceous-paleogene boundary |
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Amer assoc advancement science |
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2010 |
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https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/264213 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/1//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_Science%29.pdf https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/264213/2//Schulte_et_al_2010%28KTB-Chicxulub_SOM_Science%29.pdf |
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