A Comet Strike Could Gave Triggered the Paleocene-Ecocene Thermal Maximum (IMAGE)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A Comet Strike Could Gave Triggered the Paleocene-Ecocene Thermal Maximum

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Microtektites as first seen in a sediment sample from the onset of the Paeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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