Soot May Have Killed off the Dinosaurs and Ammonites
Soot May Have Killed off the Dinosaurs and Ammonites
Tohoku University, July 15, 2016
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/tu-smh071416.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160715113558.htm
"A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and
ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has
been proposed by a research team."
Darkness Falls On the Dinosaurs
By Marcia Bjornerud , New Yorker, July 14, 2016
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/darkness-falls-on-the-dinosaurs
The paper is:
Kaiho, K/. N. Oshima, K.Adachi, Y. Adachi, T. Mizukami,
M. Fujibayashi, and R. Saito, 2016, Global climate change
driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the
mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 2016; 6: 28427
DOI: 10.1038/srep28427
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28427
A slightly related article is:
Small town in Mexico honors meteorite that
changed life on Earth. Latino Fox News, July 05, 2016
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/07/05/small-town-in-mexico-honors-meteorite-that-changed-life-on-earth
Yours,
Paul H.
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