Rapid short-term cooling following the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7537-7541

  Vellekoop, Johan ^a   Sluijs, Appy ^a   Smit, Jan ^b   Schouten, Stefan ^a,c   Weijers, Johan W H ^a,d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,c   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolide impact; Climate change; K Pg boundary; Organic paleothermometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTEROID BODY; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOGENE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BOLIDE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE; K-PG BOUNDARY; ORGANIC PALEOTHERMOMETRY;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORAMINIFERA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MINOR PLANETS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; TEXAS;

EID: 84901649540     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319253111     Document Type: Article

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