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    Luis W. Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen V. Michel, 1980. “Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction,” Science 208, p.1095–1108.

    Anthony D. Barnosky, Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guin Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey, and Elizabeth A. Ferrer, 2011. “Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?” Nature 471, p.51-57. DOI:10.1038/nature09678

    D.J. Beerling and D.L. Boyer, 2002. “Reading a CO\(_2\) signal from fossil stomata,” New Phytologist 153, No. 3, p. 387-397.

    Callan Bentley, 2012. “Permian fusulinid forams from west Texas,” Mountain Beltway blog post.

    Terrence J. Blackburn, Paul E. Olsen, Samuel A. Bowring, Noah M. McLean, Dennis V. Kent, John Puffer, Greg McHone, Troy Rasbury, and Mohammed Et-Touhami, 2013. “Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Links the End-Triassic Extinction with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province,” Science 340 (6135): p.941–945. doi:10.1126/science.1234204.

    Peter Brannen, 2017. The Ends of the World. Ecco, 336 pages.

    Robert A. DePalma, Jan Smit, David A. Burnham, Klaudia Kuiper, Phillip L. Manning, Anton Oleinik, Peter Larson, Florentin J. Maurrasse, Johan Vellekoop, Mark A. Richards, Loren Gurche, and Walter Alvarez, 2019. “A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116 (17) p.8190-8199. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817407116

    Frank R. Ettensohn; D. Clay Seckinger; Cortland F. Eble; Geoff Clayton; Jun Li; Gustavo A. Martins; Bailee N. Hodelka; Edward L. Lo; Felicia R. Harris; Noushin Taghizadeh, 2020. “Age and tectonic significance of diamictites at the Devonian–Mississippian transition in the central Appalachian Basin,” in Geology Field Trips in and around the U.S. Capital, edited by Christopher S. Swezey and Mark W. Carter. Geological Society of America, Volume 57. https://doi.org/10.1130/2020.0057(04)

    M.A. Fedonkin, J.G. Gehling, Grey K., G. Narbonne, and P. Vickers-Rich, 2007. The Rise of Animals. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 325 pp.

    Seth Finnegan, Kristen Bergmann, John M. Eiler, Jones, D.S., David A. Fike, Ian Eisenman, Nigel C. Hughes, Aradhna K. Tripati, and Woodward W. Fischer, 2011, “The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation,” Science 331, p.903–906.

    S. Franck, C. Bounama, W. von Bloh, 2006. “Causes and timing of future biosphere extinctions,” Biogeosciences, European Geosciences Union, 3 (1), p.85-92.

    Tony Hallam, 2004. Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The causes of mass extinctions. Oxford University Press, 226 pages.

    Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014. The Sixth Extinction. Henry Holt and company, 319 pages.

    Mandy Hofmann & Ulf Linnemann, 2013. “The Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) Lederschiefer Forma- tion in Thuringia – evidences for a glaciomarine origin from the Berga Antiform (Saxo-Thuringian Zone),” Geologica Saxonica 59. p.133-139.

    Lee R. Kump, Alexander Pavlov, Michael A. Arthur, 2005. “Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia,” Geology 33 (5): p.397–400. https://doi.org/10.1130/G21295.1

    Florentin. J-M. R. Maurrasse and Gautam Sen, 1991. “Impacts, Tsunamis, and the Haitian Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Layer,” Science 252 (5013):1690-3 DOI:10.1126/science.252.5013.1690

    Jennifer C. McElwain, D. J. Beerling; F. I. Woodward, 1999. “Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary,” Science 285 (.5m, Peter M. Sheehan, David J. Bottjer, and Mary L. Droser, 2013. “A new ecological-severity ranking of major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 370: p.260–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.12.019

    Douglas Preston, 2019. “The Day the Dinosaurs Died,” The New Yorker, April 8 issue.

    David Raup, 1992. Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? Norton, 210 pages.

    Jack Sepkoski, 2002. “A compendium of fossil marine animal genera”. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: p.1–560. Ithaca, NY: Paleontological Research Institution.

    Jan Smit; Alessandro Montanari; Nicola H.M. Swinburne; Walter Alvarez; Alan R. Hildebrand; Stanley V. Margolis; Philippe Claeys; William Lowrie; Frank Asaro, 1992. “Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico,” Geology 20, p.99–103 (1992).

    Laura Soul and Rich Barclay, 2017. “Can You Help Us Clear The Fossil Air?” Smithsonian Magazine blog post.

    Steve Stanley, 2016. “Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (42): E6325–E6334. doi:10.1073/pnas.1613094113.

    Peter Ward, 2008. Under a Green Sky. Harper Perennial, 256 pages.

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