Impact winter and the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions: Results of a Chicxulub asteroid impact model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 1994, Pages 719-725

  Pope, Kevin O ^a   Baines, Kevin H ^b   Ocampo, Adriana C ^b   Ivanov, Boris A ^c  

^a Geo Eco Arc Research   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR OXIDE; SULFUR TRIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACID;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DUST; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEXICO; NASA CENTER JPL; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

NASA CENTER JPL; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DUST; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEXICO; MINOR PLANETS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR OXIDES; SULFURIC ACIDS;

ASTEROID IMPACT; CLIMATE FORCING; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; IMPACT WINTER; MASS EXTINCTION; PALAEOCLIMATE; SULPHUR DIOXIDE;

MEXICO, YUCATAN, CHICXULUB CRATER;

EID: 0028669937     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90186-4     Document Type: Article

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