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PhD Geology Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Alvarez is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most widely known for the theory that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact, developed in collaboration with his father, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez.

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Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction (1980) (3388)
Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites (1992) (317)
Fragmentation of the Alpine orogenic belt by microplate dispersal (1974) (310)
Rotation of the Corsica–Sardinia Microplate (1972) (234)
Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy V. Type section for the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene geomagnetic reversal time scale (1977) (234)
Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions (1987) (227)
Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico. (1992) (223)
One hundred million years of geomagnetic polarity history (1981) (217)
Coarse-grained, clastic sandstone complex at the K/T boundary around the Gulf of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub impact? (1996) (205)
Evidence from crater ages for periodic impacts on the Earth (1984) (199)
Paleogene magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic carbonate rocks: The Contessa sections, Gubbio (1982) (194)
Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy III. Upper Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy (1977) (184)
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (1997) (172)
Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition (1983) (170)
Classification of solution cleavage in pelagic limestones (1978) (155)
Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (2002) (148)
Impact Theory of Mass Extinctions and the Invertebrate Fossil Record (1984) (146)
Triggering of the largest Deccan eruptions by the Chicxulub impact (2015) (142)
Iridium Anomaly Approximately Synchronous with Terminal Eocene Extinctions (1982) (138)
Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540. (1992) (132)
A former continuation of the Alps (1976) (126)
Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Shocked Quartz from Chicxulub Crater (1995) (124)
Geological evidence for the geographical pattern of mantle return flow and the driving mechanism of plate tectonics (1982) (124)
Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields (2000) (117)
Current status of the impact theory for the terminal Cretaceous extinction (1982) (110)
The End of the Cretaceous: Sharp Boundary or Gradual Transition? (1984) (105)
Toward a theory of impact crises (1986) (103)
Formation of spaced cleavage and folds in brittle limestone by dissolution (1976) (100)
Chicxulub impact event is Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in age: New micropaleontological evidence (2006) (95)
The Precursor of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Clays at Stevns Klint, Denmark, and DSDP Hole 465A (1984) (93)
Metagenomic analysis of a high carbon dioxide subsurface microbial community populated by chemolithoautotrophs and bacteria and archaea from candidate phyla. (2016) (90)
A review of magnetic stratigraphy investigations in Cretaceous pelagic carbonate rocks (1980) (89)
Franciscan Complex limestone deposited at 17° South paleolatitude (1980) (87)
Late Cretaceous geomagnetic polarity sequence: detailed rock and palaeomagnetic studies of the Scaglia Rossa limestone at Gubbio, Italy (1977) (82)
Paleomagnetic evidence for rotation of the Italian Peninsula (1975) (82)
An extraterrestrial impact (accumulating evidence suggests an asteroid or comet caused the Cretaceous extinction). (1990) (76)
Chicxulub impact ejecta from Albion Island, Belize (1999) (74)
Synsedimentary deformation in the Jurassic of southeastern Utah—A case of impact shaking? (1998) (73)
A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota (2019) (69)
Palaeomagnetism and tectonics in Umbria, Italy (1978) (68)
Mesoscopic fault array of the northern Umbrian Apennine fold belt, Italy: Geometry of conjugate shear by pressure-solution slip (1982) (67)
Lower Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic limestone sections (1984) (66)
Stratigraphic Evidence for Crustal Thickness Changes on the Southern Tethyan Margin during the Alpine cycle (1980) (65)
Lower Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic carbonate rocks (1980) (60)
Protracted continental collisions argue for continental plates driven by basal traction (2010) (59)
Early Triassic Ophiuroids: Their Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Distribution (2005) (59)
Iridium profile for 10 million years across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio (Italy). (1990) (58)
Comparing the evidence relevant to impact and flood basalt at times of major mass extinctions. (2003) (55)
Geochemical anomalies near the Eocene/Oligocene and Permian/Triassic boundaries (1981) (55)
'Tektites' and microkrystites at the Cretaceous Tertiary boundary - Two strewn fields, one crater? (1992) (54)
Upper Cretaceous palaeomagnetic stratigraphy at Moria (Umbrian Apennines, Italy): verification of the Gubbio section (1978) (53)
Mobile-hinge kinking in layered rocks and models (1991) (47)
Rotation of the Italian Peninsula (1974) (46)
Magnetic stratigraphy applied to synsedimentary slumps, turbidites, and basin analysis: The Scaglia Limestone at Furlo (Italy) (1984) (45)
Synsedimentary Tectonics in the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Pelagic Basin of the Northern Apennines, Italy (1989) (45)
Radiometric time scale for the upper Eocene and Oligocene based on K/Ar and Rb/Sr dating of volcanic biotites from the pelagic sequence of Gubbio, Italy (1985) (42)
Pattern of extensional faulting in pelagic carbonates of the Umbria-Marche Apennines of central Italy (1990) (42)
No relative rotation detected between Corsica and Sardinia (1990) (41)
Deposition of channel deposits near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico: Catastrophic or "normal" sedimentary deposits?: Comments and Replies and Is there evidence for Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary-age deep-water deposits in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico?: Comment and Reply (1994) (39)
Structure of the Vakhsh fold-and-thrust belt, Tadjik SSR: Geologic mapping on a Landsat image base (1985) (38)
Quaternary fluvial-volcanic stratigraphy and geochronology of the Capitoline Hill in Rome (1996) (37)
Implications of fault reactivation and structural inheritance in the cenozoic tectonic evolution of Italy. IGC 32. (2004) (37)
The origin of the white beds below the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gubbio section, Italy (1990) (36)
Tectonic evolution of the Corsica‐Apennines‐Alps region studied by the method of successive approximations (1991) (35)
Evolution of the Monte Nerone Seamount in the Umbria-Marches Apennines; II, Tectonic control of the seamount-basin transition (1989) (34)
Shock barometry of the Siljan impact structure, Sweden (2011) (33)
Magnetic polarity stratigraphy (1983) (32)
Geologic evidence for the plate‐driving mechanism: The continental undertow hypothesis and the Australian‐Antarctic discordance (1990) (32)
Clastic-injection Pipes and Syndepositional Deformation Structures in Jurassic Eolian Deposits: Examples from the Colorado Plateau (2007) (32)
Cathodoluminescence petrography and isotope geochemistry of KT impact ejecta deposited 360 km from the Chicxulub crater, at Albion Island, Belize (2002) (31)
The Umbria-Marche Apennines as a Double Orogen: Observations and hypotheses (2012) (31)
The Role of Calcining and Basal Fluidization in the Long Runout of Carbonate Slides: An Example from the Heart Mountain Slide Block, Wyoming and Montana, U.S.A. (2010) (30)
Trajectories of ballistic ejecta from the Chicxulub Crater (1996) (29)
The historical record in the Scaglia limestone at Gubbio: magnetic reversals and the Cretaceous‐Tertiary mass extinction (2009) (28)
Base surge deposits in pleistocene volcanic ash near Rome (1973) (25)
Palaeomagnetism of Plio-Pleistocene Basalts from North-west Sardinia (1973) (24)
EXTRATERRESTRIAL CAUSE FOR THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY EXTINCTION: EXPERIMENT AND THEORY (1979) (22)
Role of pressure solution and dissolution in geology (1981) (22)
Structure and permeability: Geologic controls on induced seismicity at Nurek reservoir, Tadjikistan, USSR (1981) (20)
Structure of the monte reventino greenschist folds : a contribution to untangling the tectonic-transport history of Calabria, a key element in italian tectonics (2005) (19)
The geological relationships between Sardinia and Calabria during Alpine and Hercynian times (2009) (18)
Synsedimentary deformation in the Jurassic of southeastern Utah—A case of impact shaking?: Comment and Reply (1999) (17)
Cold and old: The rock record of subduction initiation beneath a continental margin, Calabria, southern Italy (2012) (17)
Fragmented Andean Belt of Northern Colombia (1971) (15)
Mesostructural analysis of S-C fabrics in a shallow shear zone of the Umbria–Marche Apennines (Central Italy) (2014) (15)
12. GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE CRETACEOUS-TERTI ARY BOUNDARY IN ODP HOLES 689B AND 690C 1 (1990) (15)
Ancient Course of the Tiber River Near Rome: An Introduction to the Middle Pleistocene Volcanic Stratigraphy of Central Italy (1973) (14)
Permian-Triassic boundary in the Southwestern United States: Hiatus or continuity? (2002) (14)
Meteorite flux to Earth in the Early Cretaceous as reconstructed from sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial spinels (2017) (14)
Stanley V. Margolis (1943–1992) (1993) (14)
Comments and replies on ‘Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Paleocene terrestrial deposits, San Juan Basin, New Mexico’: COMMENT (1979) (14)
Magnetic stratigraphy of the Scaglia Rossa: implications for syndepositional tectonics of the Umbria-Marche Basin. (1985) (13)
Eastbound sublithosphere mantle flow through the Caribbean gap and its relevance to the continental undertow hypothesis (2001) (12)
A review of the Earth history record in the Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene pelagic carbonates of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Italy): Twenty-five years of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco (2019) (12)
The mesoscopic response to positive tectonic inversion processes: an example from the Umbria-Marche Apennines, Italy (2002) (11)
Paleolatitudes of Franciscan limestones (1985) (10)
Fold distortion: A new indicator of tectonic transport direction (1978) (9)
What Caused the Mass Extinction (1990) (8)
Distribution of Iridium and Other Elements near the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary in Hole 465A: Preliminary Results (1981) (8)
Abundance Profiles of Iridium and Other Elements near the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary in Hole 516F of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 72 (1983) (8)
Uniformitarianism and the response of Earth scientists to the theory of impact crises. (1989) (8)
Chapter B2 Tectonic setting of the miocene northern apennines: The problem of contemporaneous compression and extension (1995) (8)
KT boundary impact glasses from the Gulf of Mexico region (1993) (7)
The neglected early history of Geology: The Copernican Revolution as a major advance in understanding the Earth: REPLY (2010) (7)
Interdisciplinary aspects of research on impacts and mass extinctions; A personal view (1990) (6)
Time-scale construction and periodizing in Big History: From the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past (2009) (6)
ELEMENTAL PROFILE OF IRIDIUM AND OTHER ELEMENTS NEAR THE CRETACEOUS / TERTIARY BOUNDARY IN HOLE 577 B 1 (2006) (6)
ELEMENTAL PROFILE OF IRIDIUM AND OTHER ELEMENTS NEAR THE CRETACEOUS / TERTIARY BOUNDARY IN HOLE 577 B 1 (2006) (6)
21. ELEMENTAL PROFILE OF IRIDIUM AND OTHER ELEMENTS NEAR THE CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY IN HOLE 577B (2006) (6)
19. GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY REGION AT HOLE 752B1 (1991) (6)
The Possible Influences of Sudden Events on Biological Radiations and Extinctions (1984) (5)
The Portuguese and Spanish voyages of discovery and the early history of geology (2011) (5)
Radiometric Dating of the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary at Gubbio, Italy (1986) (5)
Asteroid extinction hypothesis. (1981) (5)
Upper Cretaceous to Eocene pelagic limestones of the Scaglia Rossa are not Miocene turbidites (1981) (4)
Deposition of near K/T Boundary clastic sediments in NE Mexico: Impact or Turbidite Deposits? (1994) (4)
Did the clay minerals at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary form from glass? Evidence from Denmark and DSDP hole 465A (1984) (4)
Impact-Wave Effects at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Gulf of Mexico DSDP Cores (1991) (3)
GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY REGION AT HOLE 752 B 1 (2006) (3)
We Are Stardust … Concentrated by Earth! (2014) (3)
The debate over the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (1988) (3)
RESULTS OF A DATING ATTEMPT -CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS RELEVANT TO THE CASE OF THE CRETACEOUS TERTIARY EXTINCTIONS (1980) (3)
Expansion breccias in Lower Cretaceous Apennine pelagic limestones: II. Geochemical constraints on their origin (2019) (3)
Guido Bonarelli and the geological discovery of the Bottaccione Gorge at Gubbio (2016) (3)
Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi: Reading History Written in Rocks (2011) (3)
Uncoupled Convection and Subcrustal Current Ripples in the Western Mediterranean (1972) (3)
Zircon provenance analysis from Lower Paleocene pelagic limestones of the Bottaccione section at Gubbio (Umbria-Marche basin, Italy) (2019) (2)
THE METEORITE FLUX TO EARTH IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM SEDIMENT-DISPERSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPINELS (2016) (2)
Developments in the KT Impact Theory Since Snowbird II (1994) (2)
Possible world-wide middle miocene iridium anomaly and its relationship to periodicity of impacts and extinctions (1988) (2)
Shocked (?) Limestone Fragments--A New Component of the Proximal Impact Ejecta of the Chicxulub Crater (1996) (2)
Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico: Comment and Reply (1993) (2)
Cometary showers and unseen solar companions (reply) (1984) (2)
Expansion breccias in Lower Cretaceous Apennine pelagic limestones: I. Geological observations (2019) (2)
Is the "Mid-Cretaceous Unconformity" in the Gulf of Mexico a Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Impact-Wave Erosion Surface? (1991) (2)
A Little Big History of Iberian Gold (2017) (2)
U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM PELAGIC LIMESTONES: APENNINE SAMPLES AND PROVENANCE ANALYSIS (2017) (2)
87Sr/86Sr record from the Lower Cretaceous pelagic Maiolica limestone (Central Apennines, Italy) and its offset from the global seawater reference curve (2019) (2)
Misunderstandings Regarding the KT Boundary Deposits in the Gulf of Mexico (1994) (1)
Microkrystites and (Micro)Tektites at the KT Boundary: Two Different Sources or One? (1991) (1)
Asteroids and dinosaurs: Unexpected twists and an unfinished story (2007) (1)
Comment and Reply on “Spheroids at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary are altered impact droplets of basaltic composition”REPLY (1984) (1)
Mesoscopic S-C fabrics in shallow fault zones: a case history from the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Central Italy) (2012) (1)
Triggering of the Largest Deccan Eruptions and Other Possible Geophysical Effects of the M w 11 Chicxulub Impact (2017) (1)
TANIS, A MIXED MARINE-CONTINENTAL EVENT DEPOSIT AT THE KPG BOUNDARY IN NORTH DAKOTA CAUSED BY A SEICHE TRIGGERED BY SEISMIC WAVES OF THE CHICXULUB IMPACT (2017) (0)
Extraterrestrial Cause for Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinct Experimental results and theoretical interpret (2008) (0)
Possible Triggering of the Largest Deccan Traps Eruptions By the Chicxulub Impact (2014) (0)
(Supplement) Iridium contents in sediments at DSDP Site 77-540 (1992) (0)
Chicxulub Impact Ejecta in Belize (1997) (0)
Chapter 3. Gradualist versus Catastrophist (2013) (0)
Chapter 5. The Search for the Impact Site (2013) (0)
CONFERENCE ON LARGE BODY IMPACTS AND TERRESTRIAL EVOLUTION: GEOLOGICAL, CLIMATOLOGICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS (2008) (0)
Sedimentary deposits of major impact events (1985) (0)
The medical complaints of the relatives of the psychotic, the alcoholic and the epileptic (1956) (0)
Catastrophes and evolution : astronomical foundations : the 1988 BAAS Mason Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society at Oxford, September 6th, 1988 (1989) (0)
Table 1) Microprobe analyses of DSDP Leg 77 volcanic glass fragments (1992) (0)
Possible cold subduction initiation beneath a continental margin in Calabria, Southern Italy (2010) (0)
The character of earth history (2007) (0)
A little big history of Iberian gold: geological origins and human consequences (2016) (0)
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of KT Clastic Beds in the Moscow Landing (Alabama) Outcrop: Evidence for Impact Related Earthquakes and Tsunamis (1994) (0)
(Table 3) Oxygen isotope values of clay minerals from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (1984) (0)
Trajectories of ballistic impact ejecta on a rotating Earth (1994) (0)
Time-space evolution of a near-classic thrust and fold belt in the outer part of the Northern Apennines (2010) (0)
Iridium Discovery at the Jeptha Knob Cryptoexplosion Structure, Kentucky (1985) (0)
Geochemical anomalies, bolide impacts and biological extinctions on the Earth (1986) (0)
A former continuation of the Alps: Discussion and reply: Reply (1977) (0)
Chapter 4. Iridium (2013) (0)
A propos des relations Corse-Sardaigne (1976) (0)
Chapter 7. The World after Chicxulub (2013) (0)
Iridium contents and microprobe analyses of DSDP Leg 77 samples (1992) (0)
WAS THERE A QUATERNARY MEGALAKE IN THE BASIN OF THE WHITE NILE IN SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN? NEW EVIDENCE PRO AND CON (2022) (0)
Chapter 1. Armageddon (2013) (0)
Global Distribution of Chicxulub Ejecta (2001) (0)
Chapter 6. The Crater of Doom (2013) (0)
Response : Asteroid Extinction Hypothesis (1981) (0)
Structural analysis of foliated fault zones of the Umbria-Marche Apennines (Central Italy) (2012) (0)
Chapter 2. Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi (2013) (0)
LIFE AFTER IMPACT: A REMARKABLE MAMMAL BURROW FROM THE CHICXULUB AFTERMATH IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION, NORTH DAKOTA (2017) (0)
The Diamante-Terranova retrograde lawsonite blueschist (Calabrian Arc): an Alpine P-T cold exhumation path (2010) (0)
A little big history of Iberian old: how earth processes concentrated the precious metal that played a critical role in the history of Spain and Portugal (2017) (0)
Acceptance speech for the Barringer Award of the Meteoritical Society, July 30, 2013 (2013) (0)
EXPANSION BRECCIAS IN CARBONATE ROCKS (2016) (0)

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