Roadblocks on the kill curve: Testing the Raup hypothesis

Palaios

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 582-590

  Poag, C Wylie ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; EXTINCTION; IMPACT; IMPACT-KILL CURVE; METEORITE;

EID: 0031399058     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515413     Document Type: Article

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