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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock...
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    The CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species...
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  • The climate across the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg or formerly the K–T boundary) is very important to geologic time as it marks a catastrophic...
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    the Gulf of Mexico. The end of the Cretaceous is defined by the abrupt CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), a geologic signature associated with...
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    of the world, known as the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–T boundary). K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous Period derived from the German...
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    Chicxulub crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    date of the impact coincides with the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (commonly known as the K–Pg or K–T boundary). It is now widely accepted that the devastation...
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    century, a significant amount of research has been conducted on the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, the mass extinction that ended the dinosaur-dominated...
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    Nadir crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    diameter, and formed around 66 million years ago, close to the CretaceousPaleogene boundary when a small asteroid struck the ocean floor. The crater features...
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    by an asteroid impact, and is associated with the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event. The boundary is defined as the rusty colored base of a 50 cm thick...
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    the Australobatrachia, during the mid-Cretaceous. The fossil evidence found during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event could not determine the...
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    Tremp Formation (category Upper Cretaceous Series of Europe)
    Maastrichtian to Thanetian, thus the formation includes the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary that has been well studied in the area, using paleomagnetism...
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    the coal mining ruins at Cokedale. An exposure of the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary) is visible in the southern part of the park. A portion...
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    unusually high abundance of iridium in the clay layer at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary gave rise to the Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of a massive...
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    Hell Creek Formation (category Paleogene Montana)
    prolonged annual cold. The famous iridium-enriched CretaceousPaleogene boundary, which separates the Cretaceous from the Cenozoic, occurs as a discontinuous...
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    Alvarez hypothesis (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on...
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    wrought by large errors in geomagnetic reversal timing around the CretaceousPaleogene boundary, and that a recalibration of the time scale shows no such acceleration...
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    Maastrichtian (category Late Cretaceous)
    Stage is defined to be at the iridium anomaly at the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary), which is also characterised by the extinction of many...
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    Deccan Traps (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    spanning the CretaceousPaleogene boundary. While some authors have suggested that the eruptions were the primary cause of the CretaceousPaleogene mass extinction...
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  • Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    T.; Field, D.J. (2011). "Mass extinction of birds at the CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (37):...
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    and most richly fossiliferous sequence of beds spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in any single sedimentary basin in the world. These include...
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    Boltysh crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg boundary). The Chicxulub impact is believed to have caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period...
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    epoch, and are the only dinosaur lineage known to have survived the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event approximately 66 mya. Dinosaurs can therefore be...
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  • defined at the iridium anomaly which characterized the CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–T boundary) in stratigraphic sections worldwide. A section in El...
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    Alamosaurus (category Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of North America)
    sanjuanensis have been recovered from only a few meters below the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in Texas, making it among the last surviving non-avian dinosaur...
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  • Iridium anomaly (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    chemical element iridium in a layer of rock strata at the CretaceousPaleogene (K–Pg) boundary. The unusually high concentration of a rare metal like iridium...
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    fossils and provide amongst the best on-land evidence of the CretaceousPaleogene boundary in marine sediments in the Southern Hemisphere. Ward Beach has...
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  • Lopez de Bertodano Formation (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    to 65.5 million years ago, straddling the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The CretaceousPaleogene boundary (K–Pg) crops out on Seymour Island in the upper...
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    Paleocene (category Paleogene geochronology)
    "The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary" (PDF). Science. 327 (5970): 1214–1218. Bibcode:2010Sci...327...
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  • Shiva crater (category CretaceousPaleogene boundary)
    500-kilometre-wide (310 mi) impact crater, that formed around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Chatterjee and colleagues have claimed that this could have...
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    Raton Formation (category Paleogene Colorado)
    rocks spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, it has been studied for evidence of a large meteor impact at the end of the Cretaceous that is thought...
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