# evol: inside the "KT boundary", the day the dinosaurs died

<< When I saw that, I knew this wasn’t just any flood deposit, (..) We weren’t just near the KT boundary-this whole site is the KT boundary! (..) We have the whole KT event preserved in these sediments, (..) With this deposit, we can chart what happened the day the Cretaceous died. >> Robert DePalma.

<< No paleontological site remotely like it had ever been found, and, if DePalma’s hypothesis proves correct, the scientific value of the site will be immense. >>

Douglas Preston. The Day the Dinosaurs Died. A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. The New Yorker. April 8, 2019 Issue.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died    

<< When I first read it, I kept saying ‘wow, wow, wow,’ >> H. Jay Melosh.

Ryan F. Mandelbaum. Scientists Find Fossilized Fish That May Have Been Blasted by Debris From Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaur Age. Gizmodo.com Mar 29, 2019.

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-find-fossilized-fish-that-may-have-been-blas-1833671176  

William J. Broad,  Kenneth Chang. Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs. A jumble of entombed plants and creatures offers a vivid glimpse of the apocalypse that all but ended life 66 million years ago. NYT. Mar 29, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/science/dinosaurs-extinction-asteroid.html