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Preface: About the Book; A Note fromßtheßAuthor (David Shonting); A Note fromßtheßCoauthor (Cathy Ezrailson); Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations, Notation, and Metric Units; Prologue: The Arrival; 1: The Orbiting Objects; The Asteroids; Asteroid Impacts: It's All About Kinetic Energy; On Kinetic Impacts; The Barringer Impact Crater; The Tunguska Explosion; On theßProbabilities ofßAsteroid-Earth Collisions; Other Objects ofßConcern; References; 2: The Tale ofßChicxulub; The Alvarez Discovery: TheßOrigin ofßtheßK-Pg Boundary; On theßSize ofßtheßAsteroid.
Conclusions ofßtheßAlvarez Study Found: AßCrater; Found: Tektites inßHaiti; A Fortuitous Geology Conference; Geophysical Gravity andßSeismic Data; Bore Hole andßCrater Stratigraphy; Evidence ofßEjecta inßtheßK-Pg Boundary; Arroyal Membral, Northeast Mexico; Brazos River, Texas; Dogie Creek, Wyoming; A Typical Deep Ocean Core Through theßK-Pg Boundary; Other Attributes ofßtheßCrater Target Zone; The Impact Effects ofßaßDeeper Gulf; Effects ofßHigh Sulfates inßDeep Target Rocks; Reaffirming theßEffects ofßtheß"Alvarez Asteroid."
Chicxulub's Single Event-Caused Extinction: TheßDeniersReferences; 3: A Scenario forßtheßChicxulub Impact andßEnergies; The Ancient Gulf ofßMexico: AßLittle History; Chicxulub's Atmospheric Entry: TheßSonic Boom; Impact andßExplosion; The Seismic Waves; Explosion, Ejecta andßFall-Out; An Undersea Nuclear Explosion asßanßAnalogy ofßChicxulub; The Chicxulub Crater Formation: AßModel; The Great Explosion Cavity; Today's Crater; On Impact andßVolcanic Craters; References; 4: The Chicxulub Tsunami; Tsunami Generation: TheßThree Modes; A Primer onßTsunamis: Wave Basics.
Refraction: Navigator ofßTsunamis Tsunami Waves Coming Ashore: Run-up; The Cortes Bank; The Indonesian Earthquake Tsunami: 2004; The Tsunami at Unimac Island, Aleutians; The Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami: 2011; The La Palma Volcano Collapse Tsunami: AßModel; The 1950DA Ocean Impact Tsunami: AßModel; The Chicxulub Impact Tsunami; The Chicxulub Tsunami's "Edgerton Effect"; Chicxulub's Spreading Waves andßtheir Global Reach; References; 5: Long Term Global Effects; Oceanographic Chaos: Creation ofßtheßHot ToxicßSea; Ocean Stability Effects; The Long Dark "Nuclear" Winter.
Conclusions ofßtheßAlvarez Study Found: AßCrater; Found: Tektites inßHaiti; A Fortuitous Geology Conference; Geophysical Gravity andßSeismic Data; Bore Hole andßCrater Stratigraphy; Evidence ofßEjecta inßtheßK-Pg Boundary; Arroyal Membral, Northeast Mexico; Brazos River, Texas; Dogie Creek, Wyoming; A Typical Deep Ocean Core Through theßK-Pg Boundary; Other Attributes ofßtheßCrater Target Zone; The Impact Effects ofßaßDeeper Gulf; Effects ofßHigh Sulfates inßDeep Target Rocks; Reaffirming theßEffects ofßtheß"Alvarez Asteroid."
Chicxulub's Single Event-Caused Extinction: TheßDeniersReferences; 3: A Scenario forßtheßChicxulub Impact andßEnergies; The Ancient Gulf ofßMexico: AßLittle History; Chicxulub's Atmospheric Entry: TheßSonic Boom; Impact andßExplosion; The Seismic Waves; Explosion, Ejecta andßFall-Out; An Undersea Nuclear Explosion asßanßAnalogy ofßChicxulub; The Chicxulub Crater Formation: AßModel; The Great Explosion Cavity; Today's Crater; On Impact andßVolcanic Craters; References; 4: The Chicxulub Tsunami; Tsunami Generation: TheßThree Modes; A Primer onßTsunamis: Wave Basics.
Refraction: Navigator ofßTsunamis Tsunami Waves Coming Ashore: Run-up; The Cortes Bank; The Indonesian Earthquake Tsunami: 2004; The Tsunami at Unimac Island, Aleutians; The Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami: 2011; The La Palma Volcano Collapse Tsunami: AßModel; The 1950DA Ocean Impact Tsunami: AßModel; The Chicxulub Impact Tsunami; The Chicxulub Tsunami's "Edgerton Effect"; Chicxulub's Spreading Waves andßtheir Global Reach; References; 5: Long Term Global Effects; Oceanographic Chaos: Creation ofßtheßHot ToxicßSea; Ocean Stability Effects; The Long Dark "Nuclear" Winter.