Meteorite or Volcano? New Clues to the Dinosaurs’ Demise

Jan 20

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An illustration of a meteor hurtling toward Earth during the late Cretaceous period.Credit...Mark Garlick/Science Source

Lucas Joel’s NY Times article discusses the new evidence for the end of the Cretaceous:

Twin calamities marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth’s great extinctions.

Some 66 million years ago, forests burned to the ground and the oceans acidified after the Chicxulub meteorite hit Earth in the Gulf of Mexico. Around the same time, on the other side of the planet, erupting volcanoes were busy covering much of the Indian subcontinent with lava, forming the Deccan Traps. Read more

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