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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock...
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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of...
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    the Gulf of Mexico. The end of the Cretaceous is defined by the abrupt CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), a geologic signature associated with...
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  • The climate across the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic...
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    century, a significant amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated...
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    of the world, known as the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–T boundary). K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous Period derived from the German...
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    Chicxulub crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    date of the impact coincides with the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (commonly known as the K–Pg or K–T boundary). It is now widely accepted that the devastation...
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    by an asteroid impact, and is associated with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. The boundary is defined as the rusty colored base of a 50 cm thick...
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    unusually high abundance of iridium in the clay layer at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary gave rise to the Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of a massive...
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    Alvarez hypothesis (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on...
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    Deccan Traps (category Cretaceous paleontological sites of Asia)
    spanning the CretaceousPaleogene boundary. While some authors have suggested that the eruptions were the primary cause of the CretaceousPaleogene mass extinction...
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  • Iridium anomaly (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    chemical element iridium in a layer of rock strata at the CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary. The unusually high concentration of a rare metal like iridium...
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  • Tanis (fossil site) (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    fronting the late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. The iridium-enriched CretaceousPaleogene boundary, which separates the Cretaceous from the Cenozoic...
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    wrought by large errors in geomagnetic reversal timing around the CretaceousPaleogene boundary, and that a recalibration of the time scale shows no such acceleration...
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  • Shiva crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    500-kilometre (310 mi) impact crater, that formed around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Chatterjee and colleagues have claimed that this could have...
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    Hell Creek Formation (category Paleogene Montana)
    prolonged annual cold. The famous iridium-enriched CretaceousPaleogene boundary, which separates the Cretaceous from the Cenozoic, occurs as a discontinuous...
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    Maastrichtian (category Late Cretaceous)
    the Danian (part of the Paleogene and Paleocene). The CretaceousPaleogene extinction event (formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event)...
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    Nadir crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    height of the central uplift. It was formed at or near the CretaceousPaleogene boundary about 66 million years ago, around the same time as the Chicxulub...
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    the coal mining ruins at Cokedale. An exposure of the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary) is visible in the southern part of the park. A portion...
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    Boltysh crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary). The Chicxulub impact is believed to have caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period...
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    diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (29):...
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  • Lopez de Bertodano Formation (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    to 65.5 million years ago, straddling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg) crops out on Seymour Island in the upper...
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    to have been named. Ichthyornitheans became extinct at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary, along with enantiornitheans, all other non-avian dinosaurs...
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  • Denver Formation (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to early Paleocene, and includes sediments that were deposited before, during and after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event...
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    and most richly fossiliferous sequence of beds spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in any single sedimentary basin in the world. These include...
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  • focuses on topics dealing with the Cretaceous period and the CretaceousPaleogene boundary. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Web...
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    Paleocene (category Paleogene geochronology)
    "The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary" (PDF). Science. 327 (5970): 1214–1218. Bibcode:2010Sci...327...
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    R.; et al. (2015). "State shift in Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, possibly induced by impact". Science. 350 (6256): 76–78. Bibcode:2015Sci...
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    epoch, and are the only dinosaur lineage known to have survived the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event approximately 66 mya. Dinosaurs can therefore be...
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    Madtsoiidae (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    Hoffstetter, 1960; Paleogene, Late Paleocene Las Flores Formation; Argentina) Madtsoia madagascariensis Hoffstetter, 1961a (Piveteau, 1933; Cretaceous, Maastrichtian...
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