Directory of Cretaceous-Tertiary Resources

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This category is for websites dealing with the scientific study of the end-Mesozoic mass extinction.

Subcategories

• Impact Theory

Resources in This Category

• 101 Crazy Dinosaur Theories

  http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Communication/Couch/101Theories.html
  Theories about dinosaur extinction

• Dinosaurs and Extinctions

  http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaur.html
  From the Classroom of the Future website. Includes an introduction to the major theories on the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

• Dinosaurs' End: The Gravitational Hypothesis

  http://frederic.malmartel.free.fr/Fin_des_dinosaures/eedinosaures1.htm
  An original, serious and well-argued theory by F.Malmartel explaining dinosaur extinction, especially why dinosaurs disappeared when other reptiles survived.

• Science Daily: A World Ruled By Fungi

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040308071720.htm
  After the extinction event, the dominant life form was the fungi that thrived in the dark. Researchers have constructed a timeline of the fungal takeover and eventual replacement by resurgent plant life.

• The Cretaceous Extinction

  http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/cretmass.html
  85 percent of all species died in the K-T extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. This article provides information on the geological setting, the species affected and the possible causes of the event.

• The End-Cretaceous (K-T) Extinction

  http://hannover.park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/cretmass.html
  Discusses geologic setting, possible causes, and species affected by the event at the end of the Mesozoic Era.

• The Great Mystery

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/extinction.html
  Information on current and past hypotheses on dinosaur extinctions from the University of California Paleontology Museum.

• The K-T Extinction

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen1b.html
  Essay by Richard Cowen about the mass extinction of many species that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous Period and how the catastrophe hypotheses hold up to scrutiny.

• Timing and Rate of the KT Extinction: What Else Died Out?

  http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/communication/Goddard/page1.html#intro
  Article by Pete Goddard on this subject covering the sea, the land and the air, and coming to the conclusion that the evidence points to a single catastrophic event.

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