Mass Extinctions Caused by Large Bolide Impacts
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 40 (7), 24-33
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881078
Abstract
Evidence indicates that the collisions of Earth and a large piece of Solar System debris such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet caused the great extinctions of 65 million years ago, leading to the transition from the age of the dinosaurs to the age of the mammals.Keywords
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