Tracing the FLUX of cosmic dust arriving to Earth during the Phanerozoic Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For the last 4.5 billion years, extraterrestrial (For the last 4.5 billion years, extraterrestrial (ET) materials have continuously bombarded the Earth. Today, the Solar System debris that reaches the Earth’s surface is dominated by particles less than 2 mm in size, termed micrometeorites (MMs). Until recently, the established misconception was that these MMs did not survive geological timescales, limiting reconstructions of the dust flux ...