A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z /

ALBRITTON C. , 1989. - Catastrophic episodes in Earth history , London , Chapman and Hall Edit

ALVAREZ L. W , , ALVAREZ W., ASARO F. & MICHEL H. V , 1980. - Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous -Tertiary extinction , Science vol.208 , p. 1095-1108.

ALVAREZ W. , 1997. - T. Rex and the crater of Doom , Princeton University Press (tranduction française : La fin tragique des Dinosaures , Hachette édit., coll. Sciences Hachette - Litteréture , 1998 , 235 p. ).

ALVAREZ W. , 1996. - Trajectories of ballistic ejecta frpm the Chixculub crater in : Ryder G. , Fastovsky D. & Gartner S. ( Dir. ) , " The Cretaceous -Tertiary event and other catastrophes in Earth history " , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Pap., vol.307 , p. 141-150.

ALVAREZ W. & ASARO F. , 1990. - What caused the mass extinction ? An extraterrestrial impact , Scientific American vol.263 ( october 1990 ) , p. 78-84 .

ALVAREZ W. , ASARO F. & MONTANARI A.  , 1990. - Iridium profile for 10 millions years across the Cretaceous - Tertiary boundary at Gubbio ( Italy ) , Science vol.250 , p. 1700-1702 .

ALVAREZ W. &  MULLER R. A , 1984. - Evidences for crater ages for periodic impacts on the Earth , Nature , vol. 308 , p. 718-720 .

ALVAREZ W. , SMIT J. , LOWRIE W. , ASARO F. , MARGOLIS S.V , CLAEYS P. , KASTNER M. &  HILDEBRAND A. R , 1992. - Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico : a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 sites 536 and 540 , Geology , vol. 20 , p. 697-700 .

ALVAREZ W. , CLAEYS P.  &  KIEFFER S. W , 1995.- Emplacement of K / T boundary schocked quartz from Chixculub crater , Science , vol. 269 , p. 930-935 .

ARCHIBALD J. D., 1996. - Dinosaur extinction and the end of an Era , New-York , Columbia University press edit ., 237 p.

ARCHIBALD J. D. & CLEMENS W. A., 1982. - Late Cretaceous extinctions , American Scientist , vol.70 , p. 377-385.

ARTHUR M. A et al. ( Collectif ), 1977. - Upper Cretaceous - Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy , Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol.88 .

BOHOR  B. F , FOORD E. E , MODRESKI P. J &   TRIPLEHORN D. M. , 1988. - Mineralogic evidence for an impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Science , vol. 224 , p. 867- 869.

BUCHER W. H. , 1963 . - " Cryptoexplosion structures caused from without or from within the Earth ? " , American J. Sci. , vol.261 , p. 597-649.

CAMARGO  Z. A &  JUAREZ R. G , 1994. - Evidence sistemica del crater de impacto de Chixculub , Boletin de la Asociacion Mexicana de Geofisicos de Exploracion , vol. 34 , p. 1-128.

CARLISLE D. B , 1992. - Diamonds at the K-T boundary , Nature , vol. 357 , p. 119-120 .

CARLISLE D. B  & BRAMAN D. R , 1991. - Nanometre - size diamonds in the Cretaceous - Tertiary boundary clay of Alberta , Nature vol. 352 , p. 708-709 .

CLAEYS P. , CASIER J. G & MARGOLIS S. V , 1992. - Microtektites and mass extinctions : evidence for a Late Devonian asteroid impact , Science vol.257 , p. 1102-1104.

CLEMENS W. A , 1982 . - Patterns of extinction and survival of the terrestrial biota during the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Paper , vol.190 , p. 407-413 .

COURTILLOT V. , 1990 . - What caused the mass-extinctions ? A volcanic eruption , Scientific American vol. 263 ( october 1990 ) , p. 85-92.

COURTILLOT V. , 1995. - La Vie en catastrophes , Paris , Fayard édit., 278 p.

COURTILLOT V. , BOSSE J. , VANDAMME  D. , MONTIGNY R. , JAEGER J. J.  & CAPETTA H. , 1986. - Deccan flood basalt at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary ?, Earth and Planetary Sci. Letters , vol. 80 , p. 361-374.

DIETZ R. S , 1963 . - Cryptoexplosion structures : a discussion , Americ. J. Sci., vol.261 , p. 650-664 .

ERWIN D. H., 1994. - The Permo-Triassic extinction , Nature vol. 367 , p. 231-236.

ERWIN D. H. , 1996. - The mother of mass extinctions , Scientific American vol.275 (juillet 1996 ) , p. 72-78 .

GALBRUN B. , 1997. - Did the European Dinosaurs disappear before the K-T event ? Magnetostratigraphic evidence , Earth and Planetary Science letters vol.148 , p. 569-579.

GALBRUN  B. , FEIST M. , COLOMBO R. , ROCCHIA R. & TAMBAREAU Y. , 1993. - magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous-Tertiary continental deposits , Ager basin , Province of lerida , Spain , Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., vol. 102 , p. 41-52 .

GANAPATHY R. , 1980. - A major meteorite impact on the Earth 65 millions years ago : evidence from the Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary clay , Science vol. 209 , p. 921-923 .

GLEN W. ( Dir. ) , 1994. - The mass-extinction debates : How Science works in a crisis , Stanford University Press .

GOSTIN V. A , HAINES P. W , JENKINS R. J. F , COMPSTON W. & WILLIAMS I. S , 1986. - Impact ejecta horizon within Late Precambrian shales , Adelaide geosyncline , South Australia , Science vol. 233 , p.198-208.

GRIEVE R. A. F , 1982. - The record of impacts  on Earth : implications for a major Cretaceous-Tertiary impact event , Geol. Soc. America, Sp. Paper , vol. 190 , p. 25-37 .

GRIEVE R. A. F &  PESONEN L. J , 1992. - The terrestrial impact cratering record  , Tectonophysics vol. 216 , p. 1-30 .

HARLAND W. B , ARMSTRONG R. L. , COX A. V , CRAIG L. E , SMITH A. G & SMITH D. G , 1990. - A geologic time scale 1989 , Cambridge University Press , Cambridge , 263 p.

HILDEBRAND A. R , PENFIELD G. T , KRING D. A , PILKINGTON M. , CAMARGO Z. A , JACOBSN S. B & BOYNTON W. V , 1991. - Chixculub crater : a possible Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan peninsula , Mexico, Geology , vol.19 , p. 867-871 .

HILDEBRAND A.R , PILKINGTON M. , CONNORS M. , ORTIZ ALEMAN C. , CHAVEZ R. E , 1995 . - Size and structure of the Chixculub crater revealed by horizontal growth gradients  and cenotes , Nature vol. 376 , p. 415-417 .

HUT P. , ALVAREZ W. , ELDER W.P. , HANSEN T. , KAUFFMAN E. G , KELLER G. , SHOEMAKER E. M &  WEISSMAN P. R , 1987. - Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions , Nature , vol. 329 , p. 118-126 .

IZETT G. A , 1991. - Tektites in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary rocks on haiti and their bearing on Alvarez impact extinctions hypothesis , J. Geophysical Res. , vol. 96 , p. 20879- 20805 .

JOHNSON J.  & HICKEY L. J , 1990. - Megafloral change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains , U. S. A , Geol. Soc. America, Sp. Paper ,  vol. 247 , p. 434 - 444 .

KYTE F. T , ZHOU Z. & WASSON J. T , 1980. - Siderophile - enriched sediments from the Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary , Nature vol.288 , p. 651-656 .

LEVY D. H. , 1995. - Impact Jupiter : the crash of comet Shoemaker- Levy 9 , New-York , Plenum Press edit.

LEWIS J. S , WATKINS G. H  ,HARTMAN H.  &   PRINN R. G , 1982. - Chemical consequences of major impact events on Earth , Geol. Soc. America, Sp. Paper vol. 190 , p. 215-221 .

LUCK J. M. & TUREKIAN K. K. , 1983. - Osmium 187 / Osmium 186 in manganeses nodules and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Science vol. 222 , p. 613-615 .

LYONS G. B  &  OFFICER C B , 1992. - Mineralogy and petrology of the Haiti Cretaceous - Tertiary sections , Earth Planetary Sci. Letters , vol. 109 , p. 205-224 .

MacLEOD  N. &  KELLER G. ( Eds. ) , 1996. - Cretaceous -Tertiary mass extinctions  : biotic and environmental changes  , New-York , W. Norton edit. , 575 p.

McLEAN D. M. , 1982. - Deccan volcanism and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition scenario : a unifiyng causal mechanism , Syllogeus vol. 39 , p. 143-144 .

MEDUS J. , FEIST M. , ROCHIA R. , BATTEN D. J , BOCLET D. , COLOMBO F. , TAMBAREAU Y.  &  VILLATTE J. , 1988. - Prospects for recognition of the palynological Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary and an iridium anomaly in non-marine facies of the eastern Spanish Pyrenees : a preliminary report , Newsl. Stratigraphy vol. 18 , n° 3 , p. 123-138 .

MELOSH H. J , 1988. - Impact cratering : a geologic process , Tucson , University of Arizona Press , 272 p.

MELOS H. J , SCHNEIDER H. M , ZAHNLE K. J & LATHAM D. , 1990. - Ignition of global wildfires at the Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary , Nature vol. 343, p.251-254 .

MULLER R. A , 1998. - Nemesis : the death star ( the story of a scientific revolution ) , New-York , Weidenfield and Nicholson edit., 193 p.

OFFICER C. B &  DRAKE C. L. , 1983. - The Cretaceous-Tertiary trnasition , Science , vol. 219 , p. 1383-1390 .

OFFICER C.  B  &  DRAKE C.  L. , 1985. - Terminal Cretaceous environmental effects  , Science , vol. 227 , p. 161-1167.

OFFICER C. B &  PAGE J. , 1996. - The great Dinosaur   extinction contreversy , Readings MA Addison Wesley edit. , 209 p.

OLMEZ I. , FINNEGAN D. L. &  ZOLLER W. H , 1986. - Iridium emissions from Kilauea volcano , J. of Geophysical Research vol.91 , p. 653-663 .

ORTH  C. J , GILMORE J. S , KNIGHT J. D , PILLMORE C. L, TSCHUDY R. H  & FASSETT J. G , 1981. -  An iridium anomaly at the palynological  Cretaceous-Tertiairy bondary in northern New-Mexico , Science , vol. 214 , p. 1341-1343.

POPE K. O. , BAINES K. H. , OCAMPO A. C & IVANOV B. A , 1994. - Impact winter and the Cretaceous -Tertiary extinctions : results of a Chixculub asteroid impact model , Earth and Planetary Sci. Letters vol. 128 p.719-725.

RAMPINO M. R &  STOTHERS R. B , 1984. - Terrestrial mass extinctions , cometary impacts and the Sun's motion perpendicular to the galactic plane , Nature , vol. 308 , p. 709-712.

RAUP D. M. , 1991. - Extinctions .Bad genes or bad luck ? , New-York , Norton edit.

RAUP D. M. , 1993 . - De l'extinction des espèces : sur les causes de la disparition des Dinosaures et de quelques milliards d'autres , Paris , Gallimard édit., 233 p.

RAUP D. M. & SEPKOSKI J. J. Jr . , 1982. - Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record , Science vol.215 , p. 1501-1503 .

RAUP D. M. & SEPKOSKI J. J. Jr. , 1984. - Periodicity of extinctions in the geologic past , Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 87 , p. 801-805.

RAUPP D. M. , 1986. - The Nemesis affair , New-York , W.W Norton edit., 220 p.

ROCCHIA R. , 1993. - La catastrophe de la fin de l'ére Secondaire , La Recherche  vol . 260 , n° 24 , p. 1344-1358.

ROCCHIA R. , BOCLET D. , BONTE Ph., BUFFETAUT E. , ORUE - ETXEBARRIA X. , JAEGER J. J &  JEHANNO C. , 1988. - Structure de l'anomalie en iridium à la limite Crétacé-Tertiaire du site de Sopelana , C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris , vol.307 , n° 2 , p. 1217-1223.

ROCCHIA R. , BOCLET D. , BONTE P. , JEHANNO C. , PAGNIER R. , REYS J.L , DURAND J.P , FEIST M. , GALBRUN B. , MEDUS J. , FREYTET P., BILOTTE M. , MASSIEUX M., TAMBAREAUX Y. & VILLATTE J. , 1989. - Recherche d'un niveau à iridium au voisinage de la limite Crétacé -Tertiaire dans le domaine continental du Sud de la France : bassin d'Aix-en-Provence , Corbières , Plantaurel , Petites Pyrénées , Cah. Réserve Géologique de Haute Provence , vol.1 , p. 51-59.

ROCCHIA R. , ROBIN E. , CACHIER H. , LIMB B. , LEROUX H. , APPELANIZ E. & ORUE  - ETXBARRIA X. , 1996. - Impact remains in K / T boundary sediments from the Basque Country In : La limite Crétacé-Tertiaire : aspects biologiques et géologiques . - Séance spécialisée de la Soc. Géol.de France , Paris ( décembre 1996 ) , résumé .

RUDERMAN R.A , 1974. - Possible consequences of nearby supernovae explosions for atmospheric ozone and terrestrial life , Science vol. 184 , p. 1079-1081 .

RUSSELL D. A & RICE G. ( Dir. ) , 1982.- K-Tec II - Cretaceous -Tertiary extinctions and possible terrestrial and extra-terrestrial causes , Syllogeus , Nat. Mus. of Canada edit. , Ottawa , n°39 , 151 p.

RUSSELL D. A & TUCKER W. , 1971.- Supernovae and the extinction of the Dinosaurs ,Nature vol.229 , p. 553-554 .

RYDER G. , FASTOVSKY D. & GARTNER S. ( Dir. ) , 1996. - The Cretaceous-Tertiary event and other catastrophes in Earth history , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Paper , vol. 307 , 580 p.

SHARPTON  C. V , DALRYMPLE G. B , MARIN L. E , RYDER G. , SCHURAYTZ B. C &  URRUTIA J. , 1992. - New links between the Chixcukub impact structure and the cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Nature vol . 359 , p. 819 - 821 .

SHEEHAN  P. A  &  FASTOVSKY D. E , 1992. - Major extinctions  of land-dwelling vertebrates at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Eastern Montana , Geology vol. 20 , p. 556-560 .

SIGNOR P. W & LIPPS J. H., 1982. - Sampling bios gradual extinction patterns and catastrophes in the fossil record , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Pap., vol.190 , p. 291-296.

SILVER L. T & SCHULTZ P. H ( Dir. ) , 1982. - Geological implications of impacts of large asteroids and comets on the Earth , Geol. Soc. America, Sp. Paper , vol.190 , 528 p.

SIQURDSSON H. , D'HONDT S. , ARTHUR M. A , BRALOWER T. J , ZACHOS J. C ,   . VAN FOSSEN M. , &  CHANNELL J. E. T , 1991. - Glass from the Cretaceous -Tertiary boundary in Haiti , Nature , vol. 349 , p. 482-487 .

SMIT J. , 1982. - Extinction and evolution of planktonic foraminifera after a major impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Paper , vol.190 , p. 329-352.

SMIT J. , 1990. - Meteorite impact , extinctions and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Geologie in Mijnbouw vol.69 , p.187-204.

SMIT J. & HERTOGEN J. , 1980. - An extraterrestrial event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Nature vol. 285 , p. 198-200 .

SMIT J. & VAN DER KAARS S.  , 1984.- Terminal Cretaceous extinctions in the Hell Creek area, Montana :compatible with catastrophic extinction , Science , vol. 223 , p.1177-1179.

SMIT J. , ROEP Th. B. , ALVAREZ W., MONTANARI A. , CLAEYS P. , GRAJALES -NISHIMIRA J. M. & BERMUDEZ J. , 1996. - Coarse grained , clastic sandstone comploex at the K/T boundary around the gulf of Mexico : deposition by tsunami wawes induced by the Chixculub crater in : RyderG. , Fastovsky D. & Gartner S. ( Dir.) , " The Cretaceous -Tertiary event and other catastrophes in Earth history " , Geol. Soc. America , Sp. Pap., vol. 307 , p. 151-182.

SPENCER J. R. & MITTON J. ( Dir. ) , 1995. - The great comet crash : the impact of comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 on Jupiter , New-York , Cambridge University Press .

SWISHER C. C. III , GRAJALES - NISHIMURA J. M. , MONTANARI A. , MARGOLIS S. V , CLAEYS P. , ALVAREZ W. , RENNE P. , CEDILLO - PARO E. , MAURASSE F. J -M. B , CURTIS G. H , SMIT J. &  McWILLIAMS O. , 1992. - Coeval 40 / 39 Ar ages of 65.0 millions years ago from Chixculub crater melt rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary tektites , Science vol. 257 , p. 954-958 .

TERRY K. D & TUCKER W. H , 1968. - Biologic effects of supernovae , Science vol.159 , p.421-423 .

TOON O. B , POLLACK J. B , ACKERMAN T. P. , TURCO R. P. , McKAY C. P. & LIU M. S , 1982 . - Evolution of a impact - generated dust cloud and its effects on the atmosphere , Geol. Soc. America, Sp. Paper vol.190 , p.187-200.

TROUWER W. P. ( Dir. ) , 1987. - Discovering Alvarez - Selected works of Luis Alvarez with commentary by his students and colleagues , Chicago University Press , Chicago , 272 p.

WHITMIRE D. J  & JACKSON IV A.  A. , 1984. - Are peridiodic mass extinctions driven by a distant solar companion ? , Nature , vol. 308 , p.713-715.

WOLBACH W. S , GILMOUR I. , ANDERS E. , ORTH C. J & BROOKS R. R , 1990. - Global fire at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary , Science vol. 241 , p. 567-570.

ZOLLER W. H , PARINGTON J. R , PHILAN KOTRA J. M. , 1983 .- Iridium enrichment in airborne particles from Kilauea volcano , Science vol. 222 ( janvier 1983 ) , p.1118-1121 .

ZHAO M. &  BADA J. L. , 1989. - Extra-terrestrial amino acids in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments at Stevns Klint , Denmark , Nature vol. 339 , p. 463-465 .