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td;lr Unknown of paleontologist spent several years digging up a site which records the K-T impact. Complete with whole fossils, raining debris from the meteo
by btilly 8y ago
td;lr
Unknown of paleontologist spent several years digging up a site which records the K-T impact. Complete with whole fossils, raining debris from the meteor, the whole 9 yards. The site includes a variety of animals, including dinosaurs, who died on that day. We can even place the time of year from the plant fossils.
A well-known science journalist has been to the site and verifies that he isn't making it up.
The paleontologist's working assumption was that it was the result of a tsunami. However it appears instead to be the result of a seiche - the earthquake from the meteor sloshing water back and forth, destroying everything. So the entire site captures the last hour of the K-T zone. (Plus one random mammal that tunneled into the site some time later and died in its burrow.)
This is one of the most important paleontological sites ever found.