RE: Burrowing/hibernating mammals have lower extinction risk

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of David Marjanovic
>
> > longer term effects (impact winter and food chain collapse, impact 
> > greenhouse summer, long time to get the deep ocean warmed 
> again, etc.)
> 
> How does an impact cool the deep ocean?

See:
Galeotti, S., H. Brinkhuis, & M. Huber. 2004. Records of
post-Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary millennial-scale cooling from the western
Tethys: A smoking gun for the impact-winter hypothesis? Geology 32: 529-532.

http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/0091-7613/32/6/pdf/i0091-7613-32-6-529.pd
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