end-Cretaceous

AbstractDid the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals?

Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb 2007

The second is the monstrous 180-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, which was linked in 1991 to the end-Cretaceous impact.

SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010

The second is the monstrous 180-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, which was linked in 1991 to the end-Cretaceous impact.

SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010

The second is the monstrous 180-kilometer-wide Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, which was linked in 1991 to the end-Cretaceous impact.

SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010

And even the end-Cretaceous extinction (that did for the dinosaurs) seems to have had at least a significant component from massive flood basalt events (that resulted in the Deccan Traps in what is now India).

RealClimate 2009

And even the end-Cretaceous extinction (that did for the dinosaurs) seems to have had at least a significant component from massive flood basalt events (that resulted in the Deccan Traps in what is now India).

RealClimate 2009

Faunal and geochemical evidence from the end-Permian, end-Devonian, end-Cretaceous and Triassic / Jurassic transition suggests that the biotic stress was due to a lethal combination of tectonically induced hydrothermal and volcanic processes, leading to eutrophication in the oceans, global warming, sea-level transgression and ocean anoxia.

RealClimate 2009

Faunal and geochemical evidence from the end-Permian, end-Devonian, end-Cretaceous and Triassic / Jurassic transition suggests that the biotic stress was due to a lethal combination of tectonically induced hydrothermal and volcanic processes, leading to eutrophication in the oceans, global warming, sea-level transgression and ocean anoxia.

RealClimate 2009

And even the end-Cretaceous extinction (that did for the dinosaurs) seems to have had at least a significant component from massive flood basalt events (that resulted in the Deccan Traps in what is now India).

RealClimate 2009

Faunal and geochemical evidence from the end-Permian, end-Devonian, end-Cretaceous and Triassic / Jurassic transition suggests that the biotic stress was due to a lethal combination of tectonically induced hydrothermal and volcanic processes, leading to eutrophication in the oceans, global warming, sea-level transgression and ocean anoxia.

RealClimate 2009