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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction

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Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Paleontology +14

Impact and Explosion Cratering

S. K. Runcorn · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors · 1984 · 1.3K citations

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Blasting +8

Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

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Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +10

Annihilation of ecosystems by large asteroid impacts on the early Earth

Norman H. Sleep, Kevin Zahnle, James F. Kasting et al. · Nature · 1989 · 571 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Ecology +6

Some recent advances in the scaling of impact and explosion cratering

Robert M. Schmidt, K. R. Housen · International Journal of Impact Engineering · 1987 · 528 citations

Engineering, Physics, Formation Evaluation +11