International media coverage of our new publication in Nature Geosciences on dust as the main factor in driving the extinction of the dinosaurs

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 Our new paper “Chicxulub impact winter sustained by fine silicate dust” is a collaboration with Royal Belgian Observatory and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.  The paper is published in Nature Geoscience and shows for this first time, using detailed sedimentological data to parameterize climate models that dust ejected from the crater into the atmosphere blocked photosynthesis on Earth for up to 2 full years, and was likely main factor in the K-Pg mass extinction 66 million years ago. 

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Period30 Oct 2023 → 4 Nov 2023

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Keywords

  • Dinosaurs
  • Extinction
  • Meteorite impact
  • Dust