Two meteorite impacts 35 million years ago may have triggered a big chill. But it looks like life went on regardless, Philip Ball finds.
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Vonhof, H.B., Smit, J., Brinkhuis, H., Montanari, A. & Nederbragt, A.J. Global cooling accelerated by early late Eocene impacts? Geology 28, 687 - 690 2000.
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Ball, P. When it's cool to be cool. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000810-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000810-2