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Dust From Asteroid That Allegedly Ended Dinosaur Era Dots I s on Impact Event Theory
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Verschwinden der Echsen – Dino-Theorie: In Mexiko fanden Forscher einen weiteren Beweis
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Dust From Asteroid That Ended Dinosaur Reign Closes Case on Impact Extinction Theory
27 FEBRUARY 2021
Having dominated the planet s surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million years ago at the hot end of an asteroid impact with what is today Mexico s Yucatán Peninsula.
It s a theory so swollen with data that it s hard to imagine any room for doubt remains that this is indeed what happened. Were it a cold case, it d be rubber-stamped and filed under Solved by now.
But scientists are a nitpicky bunch, and a tiny gap in the chain of evidence linking signs of a global apocalypse with the scene of the crime has been begging to be closed.
According to new research, there is finally solid proof that an asteroid did in fact kill the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. While the most talked about theory was that an asteroid killed them, there have been other hypotheses such as volcanic eruptions or other global catastrophes.
Back in the 1980s, researchers discovered asteroid dust in the geological layer from the time of the dinosaur extinction. Then in the 1990s, experts confirmed that the Chicxulub impact crater was the same age as the geological rock layer. And now, it has been confirmed that asteroid dust has been found inside of the impact crater. “The circle is now finally complete,” stated Steven Goderis, who is a geochemistry professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and who led the study.
Iridium-Funde erhärten These vom Ende der Dinos
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