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

P Schulte, L Alegret, I Arenillas, JA Arz, PJ Barton… - Science, 2010 - science.org
The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary~ 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 …

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 …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

[HTML][HTML] The Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project (CIP): consistency, merits and pitfalls

M Sinnesael, D De Vleeschouwer, C Zeeden… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cyclostratigraphy is an important tool for understanding astronomical climate forcing and
reading geological time in sedimentary sequences, provided that an imprint of insolation …

Solar System chaos and the Paleocene–Eocene boundary age constrained by geology and astronomy

RE Zeebe, LJ Lourens - Science, 2019 - science.org
Astronomical calculations reveal the Solar System's dynamical evolution, including its
chaoticity, and represent the backbone of cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology. An …

Time scales of critical events around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PR Renne, AL Deino, FJ Hilgen, KF Kuiper, DF Mark… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Mass extinctions manifest in Earth's geologic record were turning points in biotic evolution.
We present 40Ar/39Ar data that establish synchrony between the Cretaceous-Paleogene …

La2010: a new orbital solution for the long-term motion of the Earth

J Laskar, A Fienga, M Gastineau, H Manche - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 - aanda.org
We present here a new solution for the astronomical computation of the orbital motion of the
Earth spanning from 0 to− 250 Myr. The main improvement with respect to our previous …

[PDF][PDF] Biozonation and biochronology of Paleogene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

C Agnini, E Fornaciari, I Raffi… - Newsletters on …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Calcareous nannofossils have provided a powerful biostratigraphic tool since the 1950's
and 1960's, when several milestone papers began to highlight their potential use in dating …

U-Pb geochronology of the Deccan Traps and relation to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, KM Samperton, MP Eddy, G Keller… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Chicxulub asteroid impact (Mexico) and the eruption of the massive Deccan volcanic
province (India) are two proposed causes of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, which …

Synchronizing rock clocks of Earth history

KF Kuiper, A Deino, FJ Hilgen, W Krijgsman, PR Renne… - science, 2008 - science.org
Calibration of the geological time scale is achieved by independent radioisotopic and
astronomical dating, but these techniques yield discrepancies of∼ 1.0% or more, limiting …