Impact crises and mass extinctions: A working hypothesis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 11-30

  Rampino, Michael R ^a,b   Haggerty, Bruce M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROIDS; IRIDIUM;

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; ECOLOGICAL RECOVERIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; IMPACT DYNAMICS; MASS EXTINCTION;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ASTEROID; ASTROBLEME; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRATER; CRATERING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMPACTITE; MASS EXTINCTION;

EID: 84870830155     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.11     Document Type: Article

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