Multimedia Release 13-Oct-2016

Comet Hit Earth during Ancient Warm Period, Glassy Spherules Suggest

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Comet Hit Earth during Ancient Warm Period, Glassy Spherules Suggest — image: Electron backscatter (15 kV) images of representative P-E spherules from Hole 1051B, Wilson Lake B, and Millville cores and the Medford exposure. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 14, 2016, issue of *Science*, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.F. Schaller at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Impact ejecta at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary." view more

Credit: M.F. Schaller <i>et al., Science</i> (2016)

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