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Undersea Cliff Could Reveal Clues to Dinosaurs’ Extinction
By Angela Messina, December 11, 2013 @ 06:30 PM (EST)
Source: LiveScience
Source: LiveScience
Scientists are mapping a giant undersea cliff in the Gulf of Mexico that they believe might hold clues to the prehistoric asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs. The cliff is located near the impact crater—the site of the collision 65 million years ago.
The cliff, named the Campeche Escarpment, is 372 miles long and 13,100 feet deep with steep sides. It’s composed of sediment layers—layers that date back to before, during, and after the asteroid impact and asteroid deposits may be present in some of those layers.
Experts hope to use robots or manned submarines to collect samples from the Campeche Escarpment for further research.
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