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Chicxulub impact predates the K-T boundary mass extinction

Gerta Keller, Thierry Adatte, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Utz Kramar and Doris Stüben
PNAS March 16, 2004. 101 (11) 3753-3758; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0400396101
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  1. Communicated by W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, January 20, 2004 (received for review October 3, 2003)

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vol. 101 no. 11 3753-3758
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0400396101
PubMed: 
15004276

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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in print March 16, 2004.
  • Published first March 2, 2004.

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  1. Gerta Keller * , †,
  2. Thierry Adatte ‡,
  3. Wolfgang Stinnesbeck §,
  4. Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra ¶,
  5. Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi ∥,
  6. Utz Kramar **, and
  7. Doris Stüben **
  1. *Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540; ‡Institute of Geology, University of Neuchatel, 2007 Neuchatel, Switzerland; §Geological Institute and **Institute for Mineralogy and Geochemistry, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany; ¶Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Bât 12, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France; and ∥Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, CP 04510, Mexico
  1. Communicated by W. Jason Morgan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, January 20, 2004 (received for review October 3, 2003)

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  • ↵ † To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gkeller{at}princeton.edu.

  • Abbreviations: K-T, Cretaceous-Tertiary; ky, thousand years; XRD, x-ray diffraction; Yax-1, Yaxcopoil-1.

  • ↵ †† Stinnesbeck, W., Keller, G., Adatte, T. & Stueben, D. (2003) Geophys. Res. Abstr. 5, 10868.

  • ↵ ‡‡ Smit, J., Dressler, B. O., Buffler, R., Moran, D., Sharpton, V. L., Stoeffler, D., Urrutia, J. & Morgan, J. (2003) Geophys. Res. Abstr. 5, 06498.

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