Evidence from crater ages for periodic impacts on the Earth

Nature

Volumn 308, Issue 5961, 1984, Pages 718-720

  Alvarez, Walter ^a   Muller, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0021535423     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/308718a0     Document Type: Article

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