A new study that analyzed rock from deep within the Chicxulub impact crater helps reveal what happened within the first 24 hours after the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs.
Image via Curtin University.
Scientists have long believed that the end of the dinosaurs came as a result of a giant asteroid that crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. Now, a new study by an international team of geologists, published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on September 9, 2019, has found hard evidence of the theory by analyzing the hundreds of feet of rocks that filled the impact crater within the first 24 hours after impact.
The geologists say the evidence shows that the asteroid impact caused wildfires, triggered tsunamis and blasted so much sulfur into the atmosphere…
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