Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
May 9, 1991
(Phone: 202/453-1547)
Diane Stanley
Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif.
(Phone: 415/604-3934)
RELEASE: 91-71
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Some scientists believe such an impact pushed so much dust
and debris into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight,
interrupting the growth of plants, starving dinosaurs and other
animals and freezing much of the Earth.
Pope and Ocampo examined core sample data taken from nearby
exploratory oil wells and found they geologically date the buried
crater's floor at Late Cretaceous about 65 million years ago.
The crater floor has younger Tertiary sediments on top.
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Rock and melted glassy fragments, "blown out" by an impact,
have been found in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico region,
causing scientists to concentrate the search for the suspect
crater in this area. Deposits and erosion patterns produced by a
gigantic tidal wave have been found at the K-T boundary in Texas,
Mexico and in cores from the Gulf of Mexico.
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