Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater

Schaefer, B; Grice, K; Coolen, MJL; Summons, RE; Cui, XQ; Bauersachs, T; Schwark, L; Bottcher, ME; Bralower, TJ; Lyons, SL; Freeman, KH; Cockell, CS; Gulick, SPS; Morgan, JV; Whalen, MT; Lowery, CM; Vajda, V

Grice, K (corresponding author), Curtin Univ, Sch Earth & Planetary Sci, Western Australian Organ & Isotope Geochem Ctr, Perth, WA 6102, Australia.

GEOLOGY, 2020; 48 (4): 328

Abstract

The Chicxulub crater was formed by an asteroid impact at ca. 66 Ma. The impact is considered to have contributed to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction......

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