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A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Cathodoluminescence petrography and isotope geochemistry of KT impact ejecta deposited 360 km from the Chicxulub crater, at Albion Island, Belize

scholarly article by Bruce W. Fouke et al published February 2002 in Sedimentology

Chicxulub impact ejecta from Albion Island, Belize ⬇️

scholarly article by Kevin O Pope et al published July 1999 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Chicxulub impact event is Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in age: New micropaleontological evidence

article published in 2006

Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields ⬇️

scholarly article

Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields: REPLY

scholarly article

Classification of solution cleavage in pelagic limestones

scholarly article

Coarse-grained, clastic sandstone complex at the K/T boundary around the Gulf of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub impact? ⬇️

scholarly article published 1996

Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions

scientific article published in Nature

Comment and Reply on “Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition”: REPLY

article

Comments and replies on ‘Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Paleocene terrestrial deposits, San Juan Basin, New Mexico’: COMMENT

scientific article

Comparing the evidence relevant to impact and flood basalt at times of major mass extinctions

scientific article published on January 2003

Current status of the impact theory for the terminal Cretaceous extinction

scientific article

Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Eastbound sublithosphere mantle flow through the Caribbean gap and its relevance to the continental undertow hypothesis

scholarly article by Walter Alvarez published 11 February 2002 in Terra Nova

Emplacement of K/T-Boundary shocked quartz from Chicxulub crater ⬇️

scientific article published in 1995

Extraterrestrial cause for the cretaceous-tertiary extinction

scholarly article

Fold distortion: A new indicator of tectonic transport direction

scholarly article

Formation of spaced cleavage and folds in brittle limestone by dissolution

article

Fragmentation of the Alpine orogenic belt by microplate dispersal

scientific article published in Nature

Geologic evidence for the plate-driving mechanism: The continental undertow hypothesis and the Australian-Antarctic discordance

scientific article published in 1990

Geological evidence for the geographical pattern of mantle return flow and the driving mechanism of plate tectonics

scientific article (publication date: 10 August 1982)

Metagenomic analysis of a high carbon dioxide subsurface microbial community populated by chemolithoautotrophs and bacteria and archaea from candidate phyla

scientific article

Meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinels

scholarly article

One hundred million years of geomagnetic polarity history

article

Paleolatitudes of Franciscan limestones

scholarly article

Pattern of extensional faulting in pelagic carbonates of the Umbria-Marche Apennines of central Italy

article

Protracted continental collisions argue for continental plates driven by basal traction

scientific article published in August 2010

Quaternary fluvial-volcanic stratigraphy and geochronology of the Capitoline Hill in Rome

scholarly article by Walter Alvarez et al published 1996 in Geology

Radiometric time scale for the upper Eocene and Oligocene based on K/Ar and Rb/Sr dating of volcanic biotites from the pelagic sequence of Gubbio, Italy

article

Role of pressure solution and dissolution in geology

scientific article

Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition

article

Structure and permeability: Geologic controls on induced seismicity at Nurek reservoir, Tadjikistan, USSR

article

Synsedimentary Slides and Bedding Formation in Apennine Pelagic Limestones

scientific article published in 1985

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

book by Walter Alvarez

Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico

scientific article published in February 1992

Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

The Role of Calcining and Basal Fluidization in the Long Runout of Carbonate Slides: An Example from the Heart Mountain Slide Block, Wyoming and Montana, U.S.A

scientific article published in September 2010

The neglected early history of Geology: The Copernican Revolution as a major advance in understanding the Earth: REPLY

scholarly article

The neglected early history of geology: The Copernican Revolution as a major advance in understanding the Earth

scholarly article by Walter Alvarez published in March 2010

Time-scale construction and periodizing in Big History: From the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past

Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact

scholarly article

Uncoupled Convection and Subcrustal Current Ripples in the Western Mediterranean

scientific article published in 1972

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic studies of hydrophilic surfaces modified via admicellar polymerization

scientific article published in August 2003

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