1979 ALVAREZ, Luis Walter (1911 – 1988); ALVAREZ, Walter (1940 – ); ASARO, Frank (1927 – 2014); MICHEL, Helen Vaughan (1932 – )
Experimental evidence in support of an extra-terrestrial trigger for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions. (Abstract).
Iridium is a very rare element in the Earth's crust, but is found in anomalously high concentrations (around 1000 times greater than normal) in a thin worldwide layer of clay marking the boundary between the Cretaceou…
GMN 14206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16522
1980 ALVAREZ, Luis Walter (1911 – 1988); ALVAREZ, Walter (1940 – ); ASARO, Frank (1927 – 2014); MICHEL, Helen Vaughan (1932 – )
Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
Following up on No. 14206, the authors stated that the same excess iridium areas were found in two different areas of W. Europe and in New Zealand, and posited that “the anomalous iridium concentrations at the C [reta…
GMN 14207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16523
1991 HILDEBRAND, Alan Russell (1955 – ); PENFIELD, Glen T.; KRING, David A. (1961 – ); CAMARGO-ZANOGUERA, Antonio; ET AL
Chicxulub Crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Eleven years after publication of No. 14207, Alan Hildebrand, working with Luis and Walter Alvarez, proposed that the Chicxulub Crater, discovered by Antonio-Camargo-Zanoguera and Glen T. Penfield during the 1970s, wa…
GMN 14208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16524
2002 REINBACHER, W. Rudolph
Healing earths: The third leg of medicine. A history of minerals in medicine.
GMN 13768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16053
2005 SELINUS, Olle
Essentials of medical geology: Impacts of the natural environment on public health. Editor-in-chief: Olle Selinus.
"... emphasizes the importance and interrelationships of geological processes to the health and diseases of humans and animals. Its accessible format fosters better communication between the health and geoscience comm…
GMN 13769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16054
2013 DUFFIN, Christopher J.; MOODY, R. T. J.; GARDNER-THORPE, C.
A history of geology and medicine.
GMN 7556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9728
