Dino-Killing Asteroid Spawned a Huge Magma Chamber That Lasted Millions of Years

When the dinosaur-snuffing asteroid hit Earth some 66 million years ago, it produced a subterranean pool of magma roughly nine times larger than the current caldera at Yellowstone National Park, according to new research.

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