Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2020
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Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (March 15) in 44 BC and a bloody civil war followed. This brought down the Roman republic and replaced it with a monarchy led by Caesar's nephew Octavian, who in 27 BC became ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2020
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Back in the 1970s, scientists came up with a revolutionary idea about how Earth's deep interior works. They proposed it is slowly churning like a lava lamp, with buoyant blobs rising as plumes of hot mantle rock from near ...
Earth Sciences
May 28, 2020
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Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all about the asteroid.
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2020
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Cardiff University scientists have shed new light on the Earth's climate behavior during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.
Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2020
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Every school child knows the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid smashing into the Earth some 66 million years ago.
Archaeology
Feb 23, 2019
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UC Berkeley scientists have obtained more precise dates for the Deccan Traps volcanic lava flows, linking peak activity more closely to the asteroid or comet impact 66 million years ago and the coincident mass extinction. ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2019
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Just like a teenager wanting to be older, volcanoes can lie about their age, or at least about their activities. For kids, it might be little white lies, but volcanoes can tell big lies with big consequences.
Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2018
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A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known as the End-Permian Extinction.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2018
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Injecting particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet and counter the warming effects of climate change would do nothing to offset the crop damage from rising global temperatures, according to a new analysis by University ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 08, 2018
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