January 30, 2015
Fossil leaves reveal effect of "impact winter"
When the Chicxulub bolide struck the Yucatán Peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous about 66 million years ago, widespread extinctions of land …
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August 12, 2014
Africa's impact is one that even the dinosaurs would have seen coming
The crater left by the infamous Chicxulub asteroid responsible for finishing off the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago, was more than 19 …
August 8, 2014
Acid oceans followed Chicxulub impact
Within days after the massive Chicxulub impact that ended the Cretaceous Period 65.5 million years ago, a deluge of acid rain may have turned …
July 19, 2013
Travels in Geology: Journeying through Cuba's geology and culture
It’s not every day that you get the chance to go to Cuba, so when I found out that the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) was offering an …