Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater

Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater

The Chicxulub crater was formed by an asteroid impact at ca. 66 Ma. The impact is considered to have contributed to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction and reduced productivity in the world’s oceans due to a transient cessation of photosynthesis. Here, biomarker profiles extracted from crater core ma...

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Main Authors: Schaefer, Bettina, Grice, Kliti, Coolen, Marco J.L., Summons, Roger E, Cui, Xingqian, Bauersachs, Thorsten, Schwark, Lorenz, Böttcher, Michael E., Bralower, Timothy J., Lyons, Shelby L., Freeman, Katherine H., Cockell, Charles S., Gulick, Sean P.S., Morgan, Joanna V., Whalen, Michael T., Lowery, Christopher M., Vajda, Vivi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of America 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125272

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