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BBC Education: The Extinction Files. A well organized discussion on the cycle of mass extinctions, from Late Cambrian to the Pleistocene.

Philippe Claeys, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley: When the sky fell on our heads: Identification and interpretation of impact products in the sedimentary record. U.S. National Report to IUGG, 1991-1994, Rev. Geophys. Vol. 33 Suppl.; 1995. American Geophysical Union.

Mark Dalton, Cray Research,Inc., Los Alamos: Extinction pages. An index page without annotations.

Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London. Earth System Processes - Global Meeting (June 24-28, 2001) Edinburgh: Technical Sessions. Abstracts. Go to: Controls on Phanerozoic Diversifications and Extinctions: Long-Term Interactions Between the Physical and Biotic Realms, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes (Posters).

Stephen A. Nelson, Department of Geology, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA: Natural Disasters, Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction.

Robert Sanders, Public Affairs, NEWS RELEASE, 4/22/99; University of California at Berkeley: New evidence links mass extinction with massive eruptions that split Pangea supercontinent and created the Atlantic 200 million years ago.

John Sepkoski, Jr., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago (Professor J. John Sepkoski, Jr. passed away on Saturday, 1 May 1999). A bibliographic list.

Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Paleontology, Lab 12 Mass Extinction Events. An index page.

David Ulansey, Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco: Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say (by Joby Warrick, Washington Post, Tuesday, April 21, 1998). Visit the Mass Extinction Links.

Kevin Zakresky and Andrew Tejero: Kelly Road Earth Science 11 Dinosaur Extinction Theories (???). Brief reports on some of the theories about extinction.

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