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The Cretaceous Period: What was Earth like before dinosaurs went extinct?
In the Late Cretaceous, for example, the Western Interior Seaway split ... It was caused by a large asteroid crash-landing off the coast of Mexico, which changed the climate of the planet dramatically ...
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How giant volcanic eruptions alter Earth's climate
Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...
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Cretaceous Period
After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures, such as frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and snakes, proliferated on the ...
Earth's orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change
An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...
Nature7d
Tectonics articles from across Nature Portfolio
Late Cretaceous left-lateral strike-slip faulting ... influence Arctic and global climate via a multitude of impacts on ocean pathways and energetics. This Review explores the past and present ...
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Earth's orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change
New high resolution geochemical records for the first time reveal when and how two major eruption phases of gigantic flood basalt volcanism had an impact on climate and biota in the late ...