What’s triggered from space?

Janine Krippner

Janine Krippner

When researching large submarine landslides below our oceans, an alien example caught my attention.

About 51 million years ago a meteorite hit the continental shelf about 200 km south of Nova Scotia, Canada. This location is now buried under around 600 metres of sediment –  so how do we uncover these dramatic events?

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