How Can Geologists Tell It Was Only A Single Meteor Impact By The Sediment Under The Atlantic Ocean?
I am doing a case study on how the dinosaurs became extinct, I am no scientist at all and want to know how they can tell the meteor that hit the Yucatan peninsula 65 million ago was a SINGLE rogue meteor. they say on the websites I have looked at say they know its not from multiple meteor impact from the sediment rock under the Atlantic Ocean but how can they tell from the sediment rock?
They can because of the sediment pattern, if their were multiple impacts the dust that eventually formed that sediment rock would have formed different layers like rings in a tree. Since the dust shows one single thick layer that occured approximately 65 million years ago they theorize that is what did it that and of course radio-carbon dating.