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Re: New refs #12

At 10:42 AM 3/17/98 -0500, Ralph Chapman wrote:
>And finally for now...
>
>Claeys, P., J. Smit, A. Montanari & W. Alvarez. 1998. The
>   Chicxulub impact crater and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
>   In the Gulf of Mexico region. Bull. Soc. Geol. France,
>   169(1):3-9.
>
>Detailed discussion of the impact zone and geology and asserts
>this is the smoking gun indeed. .... I suspect,
>even for skeptics, it might be time to stick a fork into it, it's
>done. ...

Again, this only closes the case on the location of the K-T impact.

The mere fact of the impact is insufficient on its own to establish that as
the *sole* *cause* of the extinctions.

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