I was looking for a layer that would comprise of soot. Before we had completed our first day, Mr. Alvarez had announced his findings that negated the need for us to continue our analysis. He found a layer from 65 million years ago. It definitely was a small layer that consisted of dust. Also, there were high levels of iridium deposits in the layer.
Iridium is a substance that is rare to earth but commonly found on many meteors.
This was very exciting but I needed to know if this was a local event or a worldwide one. After further analysis, iridium had been found at the K-T boundary in other parts of the world. I now had good reason to believe that a meteor had hit the Earth. Another interesting development that I never had thought of was what a meteor would do to rock formations and the evidence that it would leave behind. A man named Bruce Bohor helped the hypothesis by reporting that shocked quartz was found at crater sites and around them.