The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Spawned a Monster Tsunami
https://gizmodo.com/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-spawned-a-monste-1849614930
By Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo.
Excerpt: The impact created fast-moving waves nearly 3 miles high, a new study finds. A team modeling the aftermath of the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago say that the collision also created a global tsunami that devastated coastlines from North America to New Zealand. The researchers studied ancient sediments from over 100 sites around the world, to see how extreme waves resulting from the impact may have disrupted the geological record. Their work was presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and is published this week in the journal AGU Advances.…