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Life In Canada Just Before The End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction


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What a 66-million-year old forest fire reveals

about the last days of the dinosaurs, McGill

University, Science Daily, June 5, 2014

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605140129.htm

Bamforth, E. L., C. L. Button, and H.C.E. Larsson.

Paleoclimate estimates and fire ecology immediately

prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in the

Frenchman Formation (66Ma), Saskatchewan, Canada.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,

vol. 401,pp. 96-101. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018214000947

Yours,

Paul H.

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A very interesting study, as much for being an example of comparative paleoecology as for the results.

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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