About how often have catastrophic destructions of the magnitude of the end-Cretaceous bolide impact occurred?

A) at intervals of a billion years
B) at intervals of 10 to 100 million years
C) at intervals of 10 to 100 thousand years
D) only once


Ans: B) at intervals of 10 to 100 million years

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