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Drilling for Dinosaur Death
July 17, 2012 | Deep Sea News

“Finding K-T boundary core was one of the most exciting moment’s we’ve had so far! It was perfect. We could see a layer of blackish-green gritty material that the asteroid impact ejected into the atmosphere, which then rained down into the ocean.”


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