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Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions

Piet Hut, Walter Álvarez, William P. Elder, Thor A. Hansen, Erle G. Kauffman, Gerta Keller, Eugene M. Shoemaker, P. R. Weissman

Nature · 1987 · 244 citations · 57 references

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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

Luis W. Alvarez, Walter Álvarez, Frank Asaro et al. · Science · 1980 · 4K citations

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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology

Raymond C. Moore · The Micropaleontologist · 1950 · 3.6K citations

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Periodicity of extinctions in the geologic past.

David M. Raup, J. John Sepkoski · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1984 · 975 citations · Full text

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Periodic Extinction of Families and Genera

David M. Raup, J. John Sepkoski · Science · 1986 · 446 citations

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Comet showers and the steady-state infall of comets from the Oort cloud

J. G. Hills · The Astronomical Journal · 1981 · 365 citations

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