Stevns Klint
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Stevns Klint, known as the Cliffs of Stevns in English, is a white chalk cliff located some 6 km southeast of Store Heddinge on the Danish island of Zealand. Stretching 17 km along the coast, it is of
Stevns Klint and the old Højerup Church in 2026
Aerial view
Old Højerup Church
Alvarez hypothesis
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The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large aste
Stevns Klint
…five to ten centimeters thick, clearly marks the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. The fiskeler is enriched in iridium, a fact used as an argument for the Alvarez hypothesis that the worldwide Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction was caused by the impact of an asteroid. Following the boundary is a layer of darker clay and…
Luis Walter Alvarez, left, and his son Walter, right, at the K–T boundary in Gubbio, Italy, 1981
Badlands near Drumheller, Alberta where erosion has exposed the K–Pg boundary.
The Western Ghats, a province within the Deccan Traps that has been thoroughly studied
Pingualuit aerial 2007