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New Appreciation for a 35 Million-Year-Old Tsunami
Rock&Gem Magazine
|October 2025
Mention death and destruction by bolides, and all eyes turn to the Chicxulub impactor that took out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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But that was just one of many major impacts Earth has endured. In fact, one bolide helped shape the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago. Now, thanks to a trench dug for a pipeline project in North Carolina, geologists have gained new insight into that event and its immediate aftermath.
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