Revisiting wildfires at the K-Pg boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1508-1520

  Morgan, Joanna ^a   Artemieva, Natalia ^b,c   Goldin, Tamara ^d,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicxulub; K Pg; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; CLAY; CRATER; CRETACEOUS; EJECTA; FLORA; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOGENE; RADIATION BUDGET; RECONSTRUCTION; SOOT; WILDFIRE;

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

EID: 84892945774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002428     Document Type: Article

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