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Impacts that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions
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New open access paper about mass extinctions. Pankhurst, M.J., Stevenson, C.J. and Coldwell, B.C., 2021. Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctions. Journal of the Geological Society. 179, jgs2021-055, 1 December 2021 Yours,-
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Clam fossils help calibrate phylogenic calculations
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Clam fossils help scientists find errors in evolutionary tree calculations by Louise Lerner, University of Chicago, PhysOrg, Decemebr 2, 2021 Tha paywalled paper is: Nicholas M. A. Crouch et al, Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2021). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2178 Yours, Paul H. -
Which brachiopods went extinct during mass extinction event's
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Hi there... Elliot here. Could someone name some species of brachiopods please that became extinct during mass extinction event's. As I'm struggling to find any references. Thank you very much. Elliot.- 6 replies
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Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure
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Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs Hamish Johnston, Physics World, February 24, 2021, https://physicsworld.com/a/iridium-in-undersea-crater-confirms-asteroid-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs/ Tha paper is: Goderis, S., Sato, H., Ferrière, L, et al. 2021, Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure Science Advances 24 Feb 2021: Vol. 7, no. 9, eabe3647 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabe3647 There are arguments that seismic waves from the Chicxulub imp-
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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
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Astronomers: A comet fragment, not an asteroid, killed off the dinosaurs Jupiter's gravity pushed comet toward Sun; comet was ripped apart by tidal forces. Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, February 15, 2021 https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/astronomers-a-comet-fragment-not-an-asteroid-killed-off-the-dinosaurs/ The open access paper is: Siraj, A. and Loeb, A., Breakup of a Long-Period Comet as the Origin of the Dinosaur Extinction. Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 3803 (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-8232- 1 reply
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Super Computer Analysis of Species Helps Define Mass Extinctions
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Looking for hidden mass extinctions in the fossil record. Big data comes to paleontology https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00117-1- 2 replies
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Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis
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Below is an interesting paper, with PDF files online, about the role of contact metamorphism of evaporites and organic rich strata by the Siberian Traps and the end-Permian extinctions. Svensen, H., Planke, S., Polozov, A.G., Schmidbauer, N., Corfu, F., Podladchikov, Y.Y. and Jamtveit, B., 2009. Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(3-4), pp.490-500. http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Svensen_EPSL_2009.pdf https://henriksvensen.wordpress.com/publicationspapers/ https://h- 1 reply
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The "Great Expectations Syndrome" and Mass Extinctions
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Below is an interesting paper about mass extinctions. Racki, G. 2012. The Alvarez impact theory of mass extinction; limits to its applicability and the "great expectations syndrome". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4): 681-702. https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20110058.pdf https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110058.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239739714_The_Alvarez_impact_theory_of_mass_extinction_limits_to_its_applicability_and_the_great_expectations_syndrome https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grzegorz_Racki-
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