The "Shiva Hypothesis": Impacts, mass extinctions, and the galaxy

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 441-460

  Rampino, Michael R ^a,b   Haggerty, Bruce M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; CYCLICITY; IMPACT; MASS EXTINCTION; SHIVA HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0029752402     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00117548     Document Type: Article

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