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Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction

The mass extinction of life 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, marked by the extinctions of dinosaurs and shallow marine organisms, is important because it led to the macroevolution of mammals and appearance of humans. The current hypothesis for the extinction is that an aste...

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Autores principales: Kaiho, Kunio, Oshima, Naga, Adachi, Kouji, Adachi, Yukimasa, Mizukami, Takuya, Fujibayashi, Megumu, Saito, Ryosuke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27414998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28427