Ripples From The Chicxulub Impact s Tsunamis May Have Been Found iflscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iflscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers say they have found marks left behind as tsunamis produced by the infamous dinosaur-killing asteroid reached shallow waters off North America 66 million years ago. If they re right, these are the largest such formations on Earth.
Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was involved in two seemingly unrelated projects when an unexpected connection was revealed. He was studying the Chixculub crater that marked the end of the Cretaceous Era. Meanwhile, he was also assigning graduate students to map the presence of coalbed methane in northern Louisiana using ground-penetrating radar that reflects off changes in subsurface composition.
Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have made Earth s largest ripple marks sciencenews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencenews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.