sulfur release less lethal in extinction

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Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction

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Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact crater 66 million years ago .

A new study by an international team led by Katerina Rodiouchkina questions this scenario.

Using groundbreaking empirical measurements of sulfur within the related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the international team demonstrated that the role of sulfur during the extinction has been overestimated.

This research was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders ( FWO ) through the EOS-Excellence of Science program (project ET-HoME) and Hercules funding for the acquisition of a multi-collector ICP -mass spectrometer at UGent .

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