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- Title
Cosmic particles (micrometeorites) and nanospheres from the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/T) boundary clay layer at the Stevns Klint Section, Denmark.
- Authors
Korchagin, O. A.; Tsel'movich, V. A.
- Abstract
This paper presents new data on numerous small metallic particles of iron, copper, Fe-Ni, Fe-Ni-Co, and Fe-Cr alloys, magnetite, and aluminosilicate balls of cosmic origin found in the black clay boundary layer between the Cretaceous and Paleogene in the Stevns Klint Section (Denmark). The findings imply that a fall of an asteroid to Earth 65 Ma ago was accompanied with falling of finely dispersed metallic particles of extraterrestrial nature related to the asteroid fragments or to micrometeorites following the asteroid or to the intense supply of cosmic dust. The huge amount of finely dispersed matter that fell to Earth at that time should be considered in further reconstructions of events at the boundary of the Cretaceous and Paleogene.
- Subjects
DENMARK; CRETACEOUS-Paleogene boundary; CRETACEOUS stratigraphic geology; PALEOGENE paleoentomology; PALEOGENE palynology; METALS; COPPER; ALLOYS; IRON
- Publication
Doklady Earth Sciences, 2011, Vol 437, Issue 2, p449
- ISSN
1028-334X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1028334X11040039