Open AccessClimate Warming May Have Helped Kill the Dinosaurs
Author(s) -
Amy Coombs
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo055845
Subject(s) - climate change , warming up , global warming , geography , climatology , environmental science , ecology , biology , geology , physiology
New evidence indicates ancient warming spells that coincided with prodigious volcanism and a powerful meteorite impact, both seen as possible causes of mass extinctions about 66 million years ago.