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Environmental effects of an impact-generated dust cloud: Implications for the cretaceous-tertiary extinctions

Science, ISSN: 0036-8075, Vol: 219, Issue: 4582, Page: 287-289
1983
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A model of the evolution and radiative effects of a debris cloudfrom a hypothesized impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary suggests that the cloud could have reduced the amount of light at the earth's surface below that required for photosynthesis for several months and, for a somewhat shorter interval, even below that needed for many animals to see. For 6 months to 1 year, the surface would cool; the oceans would cool only a few degrees Celsius at most, but the continents might cool a maximum of 40 Kelvin. Extinctions in the ocean may have been caused primarily by the temporary cessation of photosynthesis, but those on land may have been primarily induced by a combination of lowered temperatures and reduced light.

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James B. Pollack; Owen B. Toon; Thomas P. Ackerman; Christopher P. McKay; Richard P. Turco

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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