Walter Alvarez is professor of geology and geophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, fall... SEE MORE