The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 9th, 2001
In a peaceful stretch of the Chesapeake Bay shore, scientists are trying to unravel the secret of a celestial calamity that changed the geography forever
METEOR
By ROBERT S. BOYD
Knight Ridder News Service
Sunday, September 9, 2001
Bavon, Va. -- It is so peaceful here -- a flat green marsh bordering calm bay waters, lanky reeds, scrubby pines, gulls circling a distant lighthouse.
Only the clatter of a drilling rig breaks the spell, as scientists poke deep below the ground in search of traces of one of the greatest catastrophes ever to hit the Earth.
Near this spot 35 million years ago, ...
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