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Chemical Signatures of Asteroid Impacts


Author: BioInteractive
Subject: Evolution
Source: BioInteractive
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This activity allows students to analyze the chemical data that led researchers to conclude that a layer of clay at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene rock layers (the K-Pg boundary) contained an extraordinary concentration of iridium. It supports concepts presented in the short film The Day the Mesozoic Died.

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