Image curtesy of NASA.
Joel Kontinen
The massive asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs also triggered mega-earthquakes that lasted months.
According to evolution, roughly 66 million years ago, an asteroid
approximately 10 kilometres or 6.2 miles across smashed into Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, plunging the planet into darkness
and causing a mass extinction that wiped out 80% of animal life — including all
the non-avian dinosaurs except some who did not, for instance the
The tremendous mega-quake caused by the collision left its mark in
rocks around the Gulf of Mexico, according to new research presented Sunday
(Oct. 9) at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of
America (GSA).
Some of these twisted and rumpled layers also hold evidence of pollen — a sign that vegetation began to recover at least six months after the impact. The fact that these layers are deformed even as plants were making a comeback shows that the quakes triggered by the impact lasted months.
However, scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than 1,5 kilometres or a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland's past climate or its ice-free past – that is, the global flood of Noah's flood or 4 500 years ago. and the petrified forests of antartica also speak of Noah's Flood.
Source:
Pappas
,Stephanie, 2022, Dino-killing asteroid triggered 'mega-earthquake' that rocked the planet
for months. Live Science 14 October.
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