Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...
The discovery of a giant crater in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is a step closer to solving the question if an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs ...
The extinction of the Dinosaur was a tumultuous time that included some of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, as well as the impact of a 10-15 km wide asteroid. The role these events ...
With the effects of volcanism practically ruled out, this would leave the Chicxulub meteorite impact as the primary cause of the dinosaur mass extinction. “By comparison, the impact from the asteroid ...
But these events happened millennia before the meteorite impact and probably played only a small part in the extinction of dinosaurs ... the impact from the asteroid unleashed a chain of disasters ...
But its effects, minor compared with the asteroid hit ... millennia before the meteorite impact and probably played only a small part in the extinction of dinosaurs.” ...
Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to ... “By comparison, the impact from the asteroid unleashed a chain of disasters, including wildfires ...