Global fire at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

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Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988natur.334..665w&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 334, Aug. 25, 1988, p. 665-669. NASA-NSF-supported research.

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Fires, Geological Surveys, Meteoritic Damage, Soot, Abundance, Carbon, Clays, Ejecta, Iridium

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Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary clays rich in iridium from five sites in Europe and New Zealand were investigated. The clays are found to be 100-10,000-fold-enriched in elemental carbon (mainly soot), which is isotopically uniform and apparently comes from a single global fire. The soot layer coincides with the iridium layer, suggesting that the fire was triggered by meteorite impact and began before the ejecta had settled.

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