Enormous Waves Discovered Beneath the Atlantic: A 117-Million-Year-Old Secret Rewrites Our Vision of Climate

Enormous Waves Discovered Beneath the Atlantic: A 117-Million-Year-Old Secret Rewrites Our Vision of Climate

Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, scientists have uncovered enormous fossilized mud waves buried more than 1,000 meters beneath the seafloor. These giant sediment structures, some reaching heights of up to 300 meters and extending over a kilometer in length, offer new clues about the formation of the Atlantic Ocean and its impact on global climate around 117 million years ago. A Key Gateway Between C…