Chicxulub Impact Cooled Earth's Climate More than Previously Thought

[Oxytropidoceras]

Asteroid impact plunged dinosaurs into catastrophic 'winter'

By Jonathan Amos, BBC, October 31, 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41825471

 

Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact cooled Earth's climate more

than previously thought. PhysOrg, October 31, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact-cooled-earth.html

 

The paper is:

 

Artemieva, N., et al, 2017, Quantifying the Release of

Climate-Active Gases by Large Meteorite Impacts With a Case

Study of Chicxulub. Geophysical Research Letters (2017). DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074879

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074879/abstract

 

A related paper is:

 

Pierazzo, E. and Artemieva, N., 2012. Local and global

environmental effects of impacts on Earth. Elements, 8(1), pp.55-60.

http://users.unimi.it/paleomag/geo2/Pierazzo&Artemieva2012.pdf

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.