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Erle G. Kauffman
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 55
Citations - 3533
Erle G. Kauffman is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cretaceous & Extinction event. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 54 publications receiving 3440 citations. Previous affiliations of Erle G. Kauffman include University of Rhode Island.
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Geological and biological overview: western interior cretaceous basin
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A Tsunami Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Texas
TL;DR: At sites near the Brazos River, Texas, an iridium anomaly and the paleontologic Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary directly overlie a sandstone bed in which coarse-grained sandstone with large clasts of mudstone and reworked carbonate nodules grades upward to wave ripple-laminated, very fine grained sandstones.
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Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions
Piet Hut,Walter Alvarez,William P. Elder,Thor A. Hansen,Erle G. Kauffman,Gerta Keller,Eugene M. Shoemaker,Paul R. Weissman +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present three independent pieces of evidence supporting a connection between comet showers and clustering in terrestrial cratering and mass extinctions, and the temporal profile of a comet shower triggered by a star passing through the Oort cloud is calculated.
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Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of cyclic sedimentary processes on the distribution of rock types and faunas in the Cretaceous strata in Colorado is discussed, and an interdisciplinary view of the causes and consequences of gradual cyclic, periodic, and catastrophic changes in environmental conditions recorded by strata from the Kiowa-Skull Creek, Greenhorn, and Niobrara Cyclothems.