Ignition of global wildfires at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

Nature

Volumn 343, Issue 6255, 1990, Pages 251-254

  Melosh, H J ^a   Schneider, N M ^a   Zahnle, K J ^b   Latham, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASTEROIDEA;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FIRE; FLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-20; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION; FIRES; GEOLOGY; HEAT; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALEONTOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; GLOBAL WILDFIRE; THERMAL RADIATION;

EID: 0025198385     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/343251a0     Document Type: Article

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