UASLP Discovers in Rayon Traces of the Asteroid that Extinguished the Dinosaurs
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The discovery in Rayón documents evidence of Chicxulub's impact on Potosino territory; the finding was already published in an international scientific journal By: Drafting A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí identified in the municipality of Rayón evidence of the impact of the asteroid that caused the massive extinction of 66 million years ago, the event that marked the end of the dinosaurs and much of life o…
A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP) managed to identify evidence of the Cretaceous-Paleogen boundary (limit K/Pg) in the municipality of Rayón, related to the impact of the asteroid that caused the mass extinction that occurred 66 million years ago. Dr. Roberto Bartali Marchetti, researcher and professor of Astrophysics at the Faculty of Sciences, explained that this finding allows to reconstruct part …
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