Schulte, Peter et al. (2010): The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

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2010-041929

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10.1126/science.1177265

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Schulte, Peter

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Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen, Federal Republic of Germany

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Alegret, Laia

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Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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Arenillas, Ignacio

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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Arz, Jose A.

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University College London, United Kingdom

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Barton, Penny J.

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Pennsylvania State University, United States

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Bown, Paul R.

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University of Texas at Austin, United States

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Bralower, Timothy J.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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Christeson, Gail L.

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Open University, United Kingdom

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Claeys, Philippe

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Imperial College London, United Kingdom

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Cockell, Charles S.

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Universitaet Muenster, Federal Republic of Germany

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Collins, Gareth S.

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University of Vienna, Austria

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Deutsch, Alexander

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Tohoku University, Japan

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Goldin, Tamara J.

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Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo, Mexico

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Goto, Kazuhisa

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Natural Resources Canada, Canada

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Grajales-Nishimura, Jose Manuel

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Denver Museum of Nature and Science, United States

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Grieve, Richard A. F.

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Humboldt University Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

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Gulick, Sean P. S.

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Universities Space Research Association-Lunar and Planetary Institute, United States

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Johnson, Kirk R.

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University of Missouri, United States

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Kiessling, Wolfgang

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Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

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Koeberl, Christian

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Purdue University, United States

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Kring, David A.

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Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco, Italy

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MacLeod, Kenneth G.

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University of Notre Dame, United States

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Matsui, Takafumi

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States

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Melosh, Jay

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Planetary Science Institute, United States

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Montanari, Alessandro

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University of Hawaii, Manoa, United States

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Morgan, Joanna V.

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Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, Mexico

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Neal, Clive R.

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Universite de Versailles, France

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Nichols, Douglas J.

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Bruker Nano GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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Norris, Richard D.

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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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Pierazzo, Elisabetta

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Geological Survey of Canada, Canada

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Ravizza, Greg

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Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

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Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario

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Lund University, Sweden

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Reimold, Wolf Uwe

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University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States

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Robin, Eric

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Salge, Tobias

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Speijer, Robert P.

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Sweet, Arthur R.

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Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime

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Vajda, Vivi

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Whalen, Michael T.

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Willumsen, Pi S.

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Identification: Title:

The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

Year:

2010

Source:

Science

Publisher:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, United States

Volume:

327

Issue:

5970

Pages:

1214-1218

Abstract:

The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary approximately 65.5 million years ago marks one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. The extinction event coincided with a large asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, and occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India. Here, we synthesize records of the global stratigraphy across this boundary to assess the proposed causes of the mass extinction. Notably, a single ejecta-rich deposit compositionally linked to the Chicxulub impact is globally distributed at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The temporal match between the ejecta layer and the onset of the extinctions and the agreement of ecological patterns in the fossil record with modeled environmental perturbations (for example, darkness and cooling) lead us to conclude that the Chicxulub impact triggered the mass extinction.

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English

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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5970/1214.full.pdf

Coverage:Geographic coordinates:

	North:75.0000
West:-92.0000		East: 20.0000
	South:-60.0000

Keywords:

Stratigraphy; Atlantic Ocean; biomass; biostratigraphy; C-13/C-12; carbon; Cenozoic; Chicxulub Crater; correlation; Cretaceous; Deep Sea Drilling Project; ejecta; Foraminifera; geochemistry; global; impacts; Invertebrata; isotope ratios; isotopes; K-T boundary; lower Paleocene; mass extinctions; Mesozoic; microfossils; mineral composition; miospores; Ocean Drilling Program; Pacific Ocean; Paleocene; Paleogene; palynomorphs; pollen; Protista; stable isotopes; stratigraphic boundary; Tertiary; Upper Cretaceous; Yucatan Peninsula;

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Schulte, Peter et al. (2010): The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary