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... Clearly, there was no sudden and catastrophic mass extinction at Site 738C (or in the northern-high latitude Nye Klov section; Keller et al., 19939. In fact, it seems impossible to differentiate the effects of the proposed halide impact from the continued environmental changes in progress.
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  • mass extinction
  • faunal turnover
  • species extinctions
  • major faunal
  • planktic foraminiferal

  • planktic foraminifera
  • tertiary species
  • bolide impact
  • cretaceous survivors
  • environmental changes

  • stable isotope
  • antarctic ocean


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