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"Andrew Yee" wrote in message
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"This is the first time anyone has found a fossil record indicating the
Earth cooled significantly at that time," said Huber, an assistant
professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in Purdue's School of
Science.
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The record of both dinoflagellate cysts and benthic foraminifera
across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at El Kef, Tunisia, reveals
a brief expansion of the Boreal bioprovince into the western Tethys,
suggesting that an approximately 2,000-year cooling occurred
during the earliest Danian. We show that this prolonged cooling
phase is consistent with the oceanographic response to an impact
winter.

And would also be consistent with localized glaciation, especially if no
similar evidence has been found in other places in the world... no? Surely
these folks weren't the first to think of looking for "dinoflagellate cysts
and benthic foraminifera".

David A. Smith