The Chesapeake Bay is cool. No disrespect. But I gotta say I think this 150-million-year-old super-salty ocean that some researchers accidentally discovered below the sediment of the Chesapeake is kind of cooler. Half a mile of sediment separates the ancient ocean and the bay, the result of an asteroid impact about 35 million years ago. […]
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