[meteorite-list] Chicxulub Impact Cooled Earth's Climate More than Previously Thought

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:09:21 -0500
Message-ID: <b3412510-b910-a76a-e20e-76565dc004a4_at_att.net>

Asteroid impact plunged dinosaurs into catastrophic 'winter'
By Jonathan Amos, BBC, October 31, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41825471

Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact cooled Earth's climate more
than previously thought. PhysOrg, October 31, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact-cooled-earth.html
The paper is:

Natalia Artemieva et al, 2017, Quantifying the Release of
Climate-Active Gases by Large Meteorite Impacts With a Case
Study of Chicxulub. Geophysical Research Letters (2017). DOI:
10.1002/2017GL074879
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL074879/abstract

A related paper is:

Pierazzo, E. and Artemieva, N., 2012. Local and global
environmental effects of impacts on Earth. Elements, 8(1), pp.55-60.
http://users.unimi.it/paleomag/geo2/Pierazzo&Artemieva2012.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Tue 31 Oct 2017 08:09:21 PM PDT