When the asteroid associated with the disappearance of the dinosaurs struck around 66 million years ago, its impacts was dramatic. Indeed, in addition to spewing ash and soot into the atmosphere, it also initiated a wave of some of the world’s worst tsunamis.
A new paper published in AGU Advances turns to a combination of computer simulations and sea sediments to fully demonstrate the power and the path of these tsunamis for the first time. According to the paper, the waves were much more potent and much more widespread than any others in recent memory, radiating all around the world’s oceans.
