Asteroid shock: Space rock impacts ’can HELP the environment’

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ASTEROID impacts are commonly associated with apocalyptic events. But a landmark new study suggests space rock strikes can actually enrich the environment.

“Furthermore, both iron oxides/hydroxides and chalcophile elements could have been released to the environment from the rocks that were struck by the asteroid impact.”As such matter degraded on the sea floor, it could have released these elements, which then formed copper - or silver-enriched grains in the KPg boundary clays.Asteroid news: Space rocks impacts enriched in the Cretaceous–Paleogen

 

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