This paper deals with the present situation, prospect and significance of the research for continental Cretaceous red beds to reconstruction of paleoclimate in the Cretaceous period.

介绍了白垩纪陆相红层研究的现状及前景，特别是其在白垩纪陆相古气候恢复方面所具有的重要意义。

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Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

The Tyrannosaurus lived in North America during the late Cretaceous Period.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Its detection at unearthly levels in rocks 65 million years old was the first evidence in the case for an asteroid causing the mass extinction and global environmental mayhem that ended the Cretaceous period and began the Tertiary period.

BBC: Leaving our mark: Fossils of the future

About 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, Lenny and a bunch of friends snuck out of the house to go tip over some Hadrosaurs that were grazing in a field in modern-day Mongolia.

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The moment most people were persuaded that the dinosaurs were killed by an impact was when the crater in Mexico was shown to have been created 65m years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.

ECONOMIST: Some new ideas about why life on Earth has periodic crises