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Paleontology

proposal, from an iridium anomaly at the boundary, that an asteroid impact caused the end-Cretaceous extinction.

In paleontology, Alvarez impact hypothesis refers to proposal, from an iridium anomaly at the boundary, that an asteroid impact caused the end-Cretaceous extinction. This meaning comes from Alvarez (1980) in Science.[1]

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Alvarez, L. W., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F., & Michel, H. V. (1980). Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction. Science, 208(4448), 1095-1108. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.208.4448.1095

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