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Walter Álvarez is an author at University of California, Berkeley specializing in natural sciences, earth sciences, and geology.
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1972–2020
76
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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
Luis W. Alvarez, Walter Álvarez, Frank Asaro et al. · Science · 1980 · 4K citations
Carl C. Swisher, José Manuel Grajales-Nishimura, Alessandro Montanari et al. · Science · 1992 · 353 citations
Fragmentation of the Alpine orogenic belt by microplate dispersal
Walter Álvarez, T. Cocozza, Forese Carlo Wezel · Nature · 1974 · 330 citations
Rotation of the Corsica–Sardinia Microplate
Walter Álvarez · Nature Physical Science · 1972 · 258 citations
Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions
Piet Hut, Walter Álvarez, William P. Elder et al. · Nature · 1987 · 244 citations
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