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I thought so too, until I read this New Yorker article [1].

It’s about a site in the Hell Creek formation that seems to show, in incredible detail, what happened in the first hour after the Chicxulub strike a couple thousand miles away.

It reset my ideas about Earth’s habitability after the impact.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...

(AFAIK, not paywalled unless you’ve used up your monthly quota of free NY articles)




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