Toxins produced by meteorite impacts and their possible role in a biotic mass extinction

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 705-716

  Gerasimov, M V ^a  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CHICXULUB IMPACT; EXTINCTION MECHANISM; LETHAL CONCENTRATION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MASS EXTINCTION; METEORITE IMPACT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LEVELS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTINCTION RISK; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; IMPACTITE; MAGNITUDE; MASS EXTINCTION; METEORITE; TOXIN;

BAY OF CAMPECHE; CHICXULUB CRATER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN;

EID: 84872000398     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.705     Document Type: Article

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