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Kef annotated

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The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary at El Kef, Tunisia, and the overlying interval covered by this study. The white ruler is ~53 cm long. 50 cm above the K/Pg boundary, the white arrow shows the level of the lowest occurrence of Parvularugoglobigerina eugubina, which Lowery et al. calibrated at Kef to be 6,600 years after the Chicxulub impact. Outcrop photograph from Julio Sepúlveda, annotated by Chris Lowery.

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The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary at El Kef, Tunisia, and the overlying interval covered by this study. The white ruler is ~53 cm long. 50 cm above the K/Pg boundary, the white arrow shows the level of the lowest occurrence of Parvularugoglobigerina eugubina, which Lowery et al. calibrated at Kef to be 6,600 years after the Chicxulub impact. Ou

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