The Chicxulub impact and its environmental consequences

JV Morgan, TJ Bralower, J Brugger… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The extinction of the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of all living species was almost
certainly caused by a large asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Seismic data acquired …

Ecological response of plankton to environmental change: thresholds for extinction

CM Lowery, PR Bown, AJ Fraass… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Severe climatic and environmental changes are far more prevalent in Earth history than
major extinction events, and the relationship between environmental change and extinction …

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

AA Chiarenza, A Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, 66 Ma, included the demise of non-avian
dinosaurs. Intense debate has focused on the relative roles of Deccan volcanism and the …

Chicxulub impact winter sustained by fine silicate dust

CB Senel, P Kaskes, O Temel, J Vellekoop… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Chicxulub impact is thought to have triggered a global winter at the Cretaceous-
Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary 66 million years ago. Yet the climatic consequences of the …

The first day of the Cenozoic

SPS Gulick, TJ Bralower, J Ormö… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Highly expanded Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak
ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)–International Continental …

A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact

GS Collins, N Patel, TM Davison, ASP Rae… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The environmental severity of large impacts on Earth is influenced by their impact trajectory.
Impact direction and angle to the target plane affect the volume and depth of origin of …

A Bayesian inversion for emissions and export productivity across the end-Cretaceous boundary

AA Cox, CB Keller - Science, 2023 - science.org
The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was marked by both the Chicxulub impact and the
ongoing emplacement of the Deccan Traps flood basalt province. To understand the …

Organic matter from the Chicxulub crater exacerbated the K–Pg impact winter

SL Lyons, AT Karp, TJ Bralower… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
An asteroid impact in the Yucatán Peninsula set off a sequence of events that led to the
Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction of 76% species, including the nonavian …

Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth's oldest recognised meteorite impact structure

TM Erickson, CL Kirkland, NE Timms… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The~ 70 km-diameter Yarrabubba impact structure in Western Australia is regarded as
among Earth's oldest, but has hitherto lacked precise age constraints. Here we present U …