Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction¶
Alvarez, L. W., Alvarez, Asaro, & Michel, H. V. (1980). Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. Science, 208(4448), 1095-1108.
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- Uniformitarianism
- Modern geology and evolutionary biology treat uniformitarianism and catastrophism as complementary: background uniformitarian processes interspersed with catastrophic episodes (mass extinctions, megafloods, bolide impacts), as Alvarez et al. (1980) demonstrated for the K-Pg boundary impact event.
This sourceDocuments the iridium anomaly at the K-T (now K-Pg) boundary and proposes a bolide impact as the cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction; landmark example of catastrophic discontinuity admitted alongside uniformitarian background processes.
- Modern geology and evolutionary biology treat uniformitarianism and catastrophism as complementary: background uniformitarian processes interspersed with catastrophic episodes (mass extinctions, megafloods, bolide impacts), as Alvarez et al. (1980) demonstrated for the K-Pg boundary impact event.
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