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

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Robertson, Douglas S ^a   McKenna, Malcolm C ^b   Toon, Owen B ^a   Hope, Sylvia ^c   Lillegraven, Jason A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b California Academy of Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84871148405     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613-32.1.e50     Document Type: Note

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