Pope, Kevin O.

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Early agriculture in the Maya lowlands
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Summary: Kevin O. Pope is the former NASA archaeologist and founder of Geo Eco Arch Research who helped connect the Chicxulub Crater to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. In 2002, Pope, along with the Geological Society of America, released a press release saying that the original Cretaceous–Paleogene impact event by a 10 km diameter asteroid was not large enough to trigger a dust-connected 'cosmic winter'. It would require significantly more fine dust to be generated in order to create this effect than has been detected Archived 2002-02-28 at the Wayback Machine. Instead he proposes that sulfate aerosols and ash from global fires was enough to create the effect of global cooling by interfering with photosynthesis. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2]
Occupation: anthropologist [2]; archaeologist [2]
Educated at: Stanford University [2]
Country of Education: United States [2]

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