216k views
3 votes
What happened to make the K-T boundary?

User Printemp
by
4.6k points

1 Answer

7 votes

Answer:

A meteorite big enough to be called a small asteroid hit Earth precisely at the time of the K-T extinction. The evidence for the impact was first discovered by Walter Alvarez and colleagues. They found that rocks laid down precisely at the K-T boundary contain extraordinary amounts of the metal iridium

Step-by-step explanation:

User Matchu
by
4.8k points