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In onze maandelijkse podcast Ik heb een Vraag geven we een wetenschapper ruim de tijd om een interessante vraag te beantwoorden. Daarnaast serveren we je in Eos Special af en toe meer diepgravende reeksen over één centraal thema.
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Thursday May 23, 2024
Thursday May 23, 2024
That the age of dinosaurs ended due to a meteorite impact is well enough known by now. But what was the concrete cause of death of this last mass extinction wave? Cem Berk Senel (Royal Observatory and VUB) breathed new life into an old hypothesis by combining new geological data with simulations of the impact with a palaeoclimate model. Fine dust released during the impact would have blocked sunlight for years, causing an 'impact winter'.
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