Comet or asteroid shower in the late eocene?

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5683, 2004, Pages 492-

  Tagle, Roald ^a   Claeys, Philippe ^b  

^a Institut fuer Mineralogie   (Germany)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHROMIUM; IRON; NICKEL; PLATINUM;

ASTEROID; COMET; EOCENE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISASTER; DUST; EOCENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EARTH (PLANET); ELEMENTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS; TIME;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 3242785501     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098481     Document Type: Article

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8. We thank the three anonymous reviewers for substantially improving this manuscript and J. Erzinger for his assistance with the ICP-MS and for providing access to the analytical facilities at the GeoForschungsZentnum-Potsdam. Supported by Funds for Scientific Research-Randers (Belgium), a Vrije Universiteit Brussel-Onderzoeksraad grant, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant nos. CI147/ 2-1 and CI147/2-2).