Gerta Keller
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Gerta Keller (born 1945) is a paleontologist who contests the Chicxulub crater as the location of the meteorite impact, postulated as the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65 mya by the Alvarez hypothesis . Keller is currently a professor of Geosciences, at Princeton University .
Keller earned a doctorate in paleontology and geology from Stanford University in 1978, and then worked for the US Geological Survey and Stanford. She came to Princeton University in 1984 and after a few years started studying the K-T boundary, the geological signature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.
[edit] Bibliography
- Keller, G. & MacLeod, N. (Eds), (1996). "Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinctions : Biotic and Environmental Changes. W. W. Norton & Co. (ISBN 0-393-96657-7)
[edit] References
- ^ Sciencedaily.com accessed May 6, 2006
- ^ Keller's faculty page from princeton.edu
- ^ "Public Lives: Where Dinosaurs Roamed, She Throws Stones" The New York Times, December 17, 2003.
- ^ "Dinosaur dust-up", Princeton Weekly Bulletin, September 22, 2003
- ^ [5] "Chicx comes home to roost", Geoscientist Online, June 18, 2007
- ^ [6] "Impact Factor", Geoscientist Online, June 18, 2007
