Geology

Most specialists attribute the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs 66 million years ago to the Chicxulub asteroid impact, backed by iridium, a crater, and global ejecta layers.

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Scientists date meteorites and Earth's lead isotopes using radioactive decay, giving an age of about 4.54 billion years, because Earth's own earliest rocks no longer survive.

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