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The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval at south table mountain, near Golden, Colorado

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Extinction Events in Earth History

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, CB-250 University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    Erie G. Kauffman

  2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, 80307, Boulder, CO, USA

    Garland R. Upchurch Jr.

  3. Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological Survey, MS-919, 80255, Denver, CO, USA

    Douglas J. Nichols

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Kauffman, E.G., Upchurch, G.R., Nichols, D.J. (1990). The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval at south table mountain, near Golden, Colorado. In: Kauffman, E.G., Walliser, O.H. (eds) Extinction Events in Earth History. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011159

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