The K/T mass extinction, Chicxulub and the impact-kill effect

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 485-491

  Keller, Gerta ^a   Li, Liangquan ^a   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^b   Vicenzi, Ed ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; MASS EXTINCTION;

MEXICO, YUCATAN PENINSULA, CHICXULUB;

EID: 0032431969     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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