On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China

Y Gao, DE Ibarra, JKC Rugenstein, J Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
From the latest Cretaceous (late Campanian to Maastrichtian,~ 75–66 Ma) to the earliest
Paleogene, fluctuations in greenhouse climate, inferred primarily from marine sediments …

A high‐Fidelity benthic stable isotope record of late Cretaceous–early Eocene climate change and carbon‐cycling

JSK Barnet, K Littler, T Westerhold… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene is the most recent period in Earth history
that experienced sustained global greenhouse warmth on multimillion year timescales. Yet …

[PDF][PDF] Does large igneous province volcanism always perturb the mercury cycle? Comparing the records of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 and the end-Cretaceous to other …

LME Percival, HC Jenkyns, TA Mather… - American Journal of …, 2018 - ajsonline.org
Mercury (Hg) is increasingly being used as a sedimentary tracer of Large Igneous Province
(LIP) volcanism, and supports hypotheses of a coincidence between the formation of several …

Maastrichtian to Danian Atlantic transgression in the north of Patagonia: a dinoflagellate cyst approach

MV Guler, MSG Estebenet, EL Navarro… - Journal of South …, 2019 - Elsevier
The late Maastrichtian to early Paleocene marine successions in northern Patagonia and
neighboring southwestern Atlantic Ocean Basins provided a valuable organic-walled …

[HTML][HTML] A new high-resolution chronology for the late Maastrichtian warming event: Establishing robust temporal links with the onset of Deccan volcanism

JSK Barnet, K Littler, D Kroon, MJ Leng… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The late Maastrichtian warming event was defined by a global temperature increase of∼ 2.5–
5 C that occurred∼ 150–300 ky before the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction …

The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, BT Huber, SL Wing, DJ Lunt… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain

V Gilabert, SJ Batenburg, I Arenillas, JA Arz - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Untangling the timing of the environmental effects of Deccan volcanism with respect to the
Chicxulub impact is instrumental to fully assessing the contributions of both to climate …

Cretaceous large igneous provinces: From volcanic formation to environmental catastrophes and biological crises

LME Percival, H Matsumoto, S Callegaro… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Cretaceous Period was marked by the formation of numerous large igneous
provinces (LIPs), several of which were associated with geologically rapid climate …

[KNIHA][B] Mesozoic mammals from South America and their forerunners

GW Rougier, AG Martinelli, AM Forasiepi - 2021 - Springer
As evolutionary biologists, we live in exciting and promising times. The material basis of our
science is growing at an unprecedented rate; fossils preserving structures we thought …