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What does C-T stand for?

Cretaceous-Tertiary (geologic boundary; also K-T, CT)


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Fungal presence starts to increase just before the main extinction; it's not as sudden as the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction (which killed the dinosaurs)," said Sephton.
9780813724577 Did westward subduction cause Cretaceous-Tertiary orogeny in the North American cordillera?
It is called the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event or the K-T extinction event.
While studying the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Tertiary, or K-T, extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, Jablonski noticed that many surviving lineages of plants and animals lingered a paltry few million years and then petered out.
I would like to present the hypothesis of a direct link between chemical stress and a major mass extinction process, the Cretaceous-Tertiary (C-T) event, with the aim of providing a more holistic view on the potential of chemical stress on the evolutionary process.
5 WORST MASS EXTINCTIONS YEARS AGO (in millions) Cretaceous-Tertiary (dinosaurs) 65 End Triassic 199 to 214 Permian-Triassic (the Great Dying) 251 Late Devonian 364 Ordovician-Silurian 439 Source: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Fungal presence starts to increase just before the main extinction; it's not as sudden as the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction (which killed the dinosaurs)," said Sephton.
9781862391970 Cretaceous-tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments; James Ross Basin, Antarctica.

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