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Did dust from the Chicxulub asteroid impact kill the dinosaurs?

Fine particles kicked up by the collision could have blocked out the Sun for years, resulting in global cooling and disastrous consequences for ecosystems.
  1. Katharine Sanderson
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Dust might have been responsible for the deadly dinosaur-killing global winter that came after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, finds a study published on 30 October in Nature Geoscience1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03406-7

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  1. Senel, C. B. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01290-4 (2023).

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