Frankel, Charles.

The end of the dinosaurs : Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions / Charles Frankel. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - xii, 223 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-212) and index.

1. The great mass extinctions -- 2. The impact hypothesis -- 3. The controversy -- 4. In search of the crater -- 5. The discovery of Chicxulub crater -- 6. Scenario of a catastrophe -- 7. Impacts and other extinctions -- 8. The impact hazard.

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Catastrophes Geology
Extinction Biology
Cryptoexplosion structures--Mexico--Campeche Bay of Region


Chicxulub Crater

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