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Table of Contents - Special Paper 247:
Global Catastrophes in Earth History: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality

Dedication

The "facts" of mass extinctions, Karl W. Flessa

Periodicity in flood basalts, mass extinctions, and impacts, A statistical view and a model, Richard B. Stothers and Michael R. Rampino

On impacts as a cause of geomagnetic field reversals or flood basalts, David E. Loper and Kevin McCartney

Impact as a general cause of extinction: A feasibility test, David M. Raup

The taxonomic structure of periodic extinction, J. John Sepkoski, Jr.

Iridium abundance patterns across bioevent horizons in the fossil record, C. J. Orth, M. Attrep, Jr., and L. R. Quintana

Carbon-isotope anomalies at era boundaries; Global catastrophes and their ultimate cause, Kenneth J. Hsü and Judith A. McKenzie

Chondritic metal toxicity as a seed stock kill mechanism in impact-caused mass extinctions, Stewart A. Davenport, Thomas J. Wdowiak, Daniel D. Jones, and Patricia Wdowiak

Effects of global atmospheric perturbations on forest ecosystems in the Northern Temperate Zone, Predictions of seasonal depressed-temperature kill mechanisms, biomass production, and wildlife soot emissions, Richard W. Tinus and David J. Roddy

A search for Nemesis; Current status and review of history, S. Perlmutter, R. A. Muller, C. R. Pennypacker, C. K. Smith, L. P. Wang, S. White, and H. S. Yang

Interdisciplinary aspects of research on impacts and mass extinctions, A personal view, Walter Alvarez

Assessment of the atmospheric impact of volcanic eruptions, Haraldur Sigurdsson

Iridium and other trace-metal enrichments from Hawaiian volcanoes, D. L. Finnegan, T. L. Miller, and W. H. Zoller

Deccan volcanism, greenhouse warming, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, Kenneth G. Caldeira and Michael R. Rampino

A paradigm for endogenous causation of mass extinctions, Kevin McCartney, Alan R. Huffman, and Marian Tredoux

Explosive volcanism and associated pressures; Implications for models of endogenically shocked quartz, S. L. de Silva, J. A. Wolff, and V. L. Sharpton

M. Observations and Effects of Large-Scale Meteorite Impact and its revolutionary implications for geology, Ursula B. Marvin

Asteroid and comet flux in the neighborhood of Earth, Eugene M. Shoemaker, Ruth F. Wolfe, and Carolyn S. Shoemaker

The cometary impactor flux at the Earth, Paul R. Weissman

Application of the inner Solar System cratering record to the Earth, Nadine G. Barlow

Search for the Tunguska event relies in the Antarctic snow and new estimation of the cosmic iridium accretion rate, Robert Rocchia, Philippe Bonté, Célestine Jéhanno, Eric Robin, Martine de Angelis, and Daniel Boclet

The formation of the Ries Crater, West Germany; Evidence of atmospheric interactions during a large cratering event, Horton E. Newsom, Gunther Graup, David A. Iseri, John W. Geissman, and Klaus Keil

Geology, geophysics, and geochronology of the Manson impact structure, Jack B. Hartung, Michael J. Kunk, and Raymond R. Anderson

Comets and extinctions; Cause and effect? Lubomir F. Jansa, Marie-Pierre Aubry, and Felix M. Gradstein

The Karal/Ust-Kara twin impact structure, A large-scale impact event in the late Cretaceous, Christian Koeberl, Virgil L. Sharpton, T. Mark Harrison, David Sandwell, A. V. Murali, and Kevin Burke

Prolonged global catastrophes from oblique impacts, Peter H. Schultz and Donald E. Gault

Global environmental effects of impact-generated aerosols, Results from a general circulation model, Curt Covey, Steven J. Ghan, John J. Walton, and Paul R. Weissman

Atmospheric chemistry by large impacts, Kevin J. Zahnle

Atmospheric erosion and impactor retention in large impacts, with application to mass extinctions, Ann M. Vickery and H. Jay Melosh

Meteorite impact cryptoexplosion and shock metamorphism A perspective on the evidence at the KIT boundary, V. L. Sharpton and R.A.F. Grieve

Chemistry and mineralogy across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at DSDP Site 527, Walvis Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean, Alan R. Huffman, James H. Crocket, Neville L. Carter, Peter E. Borelia, and Charles B. Officer

Shocked quartz and more, Impact signatures in Cretaceous/ Tertiary boundary clays, Bruce F. Bohor

A closer look at cathodoluminescence of shocked quartz at the KIT boundary, Michael R. Owen, Mark H. Anders, April A. Barber, Peter D. Condon, and Mark G. Houghton

Detritus in KIT boundary clays of western North America; Evidence against a single oceanic impact, V. L. Sharpton, B. C. Schuraytz, K. Burke, A. V. Murali, and G. Ryder

The significance of magnetic spheroids and magnesioferrite occurring in KIT boundary sediments, Stanley M. Cisowski

Trace-element geochemistry and mineralogy of the Cretaceous/ Tertiary boundary; Identification of extraterrestrial components, Eric Doehne and Stanley V. Margolis

Early environmental effects of the terminal Cretaceous impact, Iain Gilmour, Wendy S. Wolbach, and Edward Anders

Major wildfires at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, Wendy S. Wolbach, lain Gilmour, and Edward Anders

Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; Data and inferences, V. Courtillot, D. Vandamme, J. Besse, J. J. Jaeger, and M. Javoy

Boundaries; A stratigraphic and sedimentologic perspective, Joanne Bourgeois

Diachronous extinctions at the KIT boundary; A scenario, Hans Jorgen Hansen

The Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions in the marine realm; A 1990 perspective, Peter Douglas Ward

Megafloral change across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, U.S.A, Kirk R. Johnson and Leo J. Hickey

Plant microfossil record of the terminal Cretaceous event in the western United States and Canada, Douglas J. Nichols and R. Farley Fleming

Palynofloral response to KIT boundary events, A transitory interruption within a dynamic system, A. R. Sweet, D. R. Braman, and J. F. Lerbekmo

Faunal, erosional, and CaCO3 events in the early Tertiary eastern Tethys, Gerta Keller, Chaim Benjamini, Mordechai Magaritz, and Shimon Moshkovitz

Late Cretaceous-early Eocene mass extinctions in the deep sea, Ellen Thomas

The effects of bioturbation across a biostratigraphically complete high southern latitude Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary, James J. Pospichal, Sherwood W. Wise, Jr., Frank Asaro, and Norman Hamilton

Extinction pattern of Inoceramus (Bivalvia) based on shell fragment biostratigraphy, Kenneth G. MacLeod and Peter D. Ward

A review of Maastrichtian ammonite ranges, Peter D. Ward

Selective extinction of marine plankton in the Paratethys at the end of the Mesozoic Era; A multiple interaction hypothesis, Yvonne Herman

Rocks, resolution, and the record, A review of depositional constraints on fossil vertebrate assemblages at the terrestrial Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, eastern Montana and western North Dakota, David E. Fastovsky

Differential Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions of nonmarine vertebrates, Evidence from northeastern Montana, J. David Archibald and Lauri J. Bryant

The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact hypothesis and the paleontological record, Gerta Keller and Enriqueta Barrera

The end-Triassic mass extinction event, A. Hallam

The Triassic/Jurassic boundary in continental rocks of eastern North America; A progress report, P. E. Olsen, S. J. Fowell, and B. Comet

Effects of late Eocene impacts on planktonic foraminifera, N. MacLeod

Geochronology of the terminal Eocene impacts, An update, Alessandro Montanari

Index