Search for fullerenes C60 and C70 in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Austria, and Denmark

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 367-380

  Heymann, D ^a   Korochantsev, A ^b   Nazarov, M A ^b   Smit, J ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chicxulub event; Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Fullerenes; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

CHICXULUB EVENT; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FULLERENE; IMPACT; WILDFIRE;

ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 0030453630     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0023     Document Type: Article

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