EARTH SCIENCE: Deadly combination

Duncan, Robert

¹Robert Duncan is at the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.

Nature 527(7577):p 172-173, November 12, 2015. | DOI: 10.1038/527172a

New evidence suggests that seismic waves from the Chicxulub meteorite impact doubled the eruption rate of lavas on the opposite side of the planet — a combination that led to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.