A possible causal relationship between extinction of dinosaurs and K/T iridium enrichment in the Nanxiong Basin, South China: Evidence from dinosaur eggshells

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Zhao, Zi Kui ^a   Mao, Xue Ying ^b   Chai, Zhi Fang ^b   Yang, Gao Chuang ^b   Kong, Ping ^c   Ebihara, Mitsuru ^c   Zhao, Zhen Hua ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dinosaur eggshell; Dinosaur extinction; Ir anomaly; K T boundary; Trace element

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DINOSAUR; EGGSHELL; IRIDIUM; MASS EXTINCTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA;

AVES; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 0036476953     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00361-3     Document Type: Article

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