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Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree of increase in global air temperature, an average of nearly 9,000 meteorites disappear from the surface of the ice sheet

Fine dust from pulverized rock generated by the Chicxulub impact likely played a dominant role in global climate cooling and the disruption of photosynthesis following the event. This is suggested by a new study published in Nature Geoscience, in which researchers Cem Berk Cenel, Özgür Karatekin, an

Unusual traces found in Texas show what happened when the Chicxulub asteroid vaporized a thick bed of rock, unleashing superheated gas that kicked off a calamitous period of climate changes.

A treasure trove from outer-space could be locked deep under the ice in Antarctica.

 E-Mail Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. For April, GSA Bulletin topics include multiple articles about the dynamics of China and Tibet; new insights into the Chicxulub impact structure; and the dynamic topography of the Cordilleran foreland basin. You can find these articles at https://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/recent . Tectonic and eustatic control of Mesaverde Group (Campanian-Maastrichtian) architec...

In 2016, Sean Gulick and a team of researchers extracted asteroid dust from sections of dark brown, silty claystone and greyish-green marlstone buried beneath the ocean in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Now, five years later, that dust has answered perhaps one of humankind’s most poignant questions: What killed the dinosaurs? Gulick, a research professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences, spent over a decade sending out proposals for the mission, so when it finally commenced, and he was bu...

Dust left in the Chicxulub asteroid’s wake 66 million years ago has finally proven that it was what led to the dinosaurs’ demise.

Dust From Asteroid That Ended Dinosaur Reign Closes Case on Impact Extinction Theory 27 FEBRUARY 2021 Having dominated the planets surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million years ago at the hot end of an asteroid impact with what is today Mexicos Yucatán Peninsula.   Its a theory so swollen with data that its hard to imagine any room for doubt remains that this is indeed what happened. Were it a cold case, itd be rubber-sta...

According to new research, there is finally solid proof that an asteroid did in fact kill the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. While the most talked about theory was that an asteroid killed them, there have been other hypotheses such as volcanic eruptions or other global catastrophes. Back in the 1980s, researchers discovered asteroid dust in the geological layer from the time of the dinosaur extinction. Then in the 1990s, experts confirmed that the Chicxulub impact crater was the same ag...

Science 1 month, 1 week Ever since dinosaurs disappeared from the face of the Earth, researchers and archaeologists have been trying to figure out what exactly led to the extinction of thee, giant creatures. An asteroid impact on Earth is often believed to be the reason behind dinosaurs extinction. And now researchers believe that they have “closed the case” of what killed the dinosaurs. The researchers link the extinction with an asteroid based on one major evidence - they found asteroid...