Site of Asteroid Impact Changed the History of Life (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

Site of Asteroid Impact Changed the History of Life

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Fig. 1) Mass extinction only occurred when the asteroid having 9-km diameter hit the orange areas.

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Kunio Kaiho

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