Original paper

Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Nature50.50
Volume: 558, Issue: 7709, Pages: 288 - 291
Published: May 30, 2018
Abstract
The Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction eradicated 76% of species on Earth1,2. It was caused by the impact of an asteroid3,4 on the Yucatán carbonate platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago 5 , forming the Chicxulub impact crater6,7. After the mass extinction, the recovery of the global marine ecosystem-measured as primary productivity-was geographically heterogeneous 8 ; export production in the Gulf of Mexico and North...
Paper Details
Title
Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Published Date
May 30, 2018
Journal
Volume
558
Issue
7709
Pages
288 - 291
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