Fireball passes and nothing burns-The role of thermal radiation in the Cretaceous-Tertiary event: Evidence from the charcoal record of North America: Reply

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Belcher, Claire M ^a   Collinson, Margaret E ^a   Sweet, Arthur R ^b   Hildebrand, Alan R ^c   Scott, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CHARCOAL; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; IRRADIATION; THERMAL REGIME;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84871133097     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613-32.1.e51     Document Type: Letter

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