This wind-blown dust deposit (loess) from Tibet





A) was deposited by a huge flood of seawater that covered the land at the time of the dinosaurs.

B) began as clay and silt that were produced by grinding of rocks along ice-age glaciers.

C) forms a worldwide layer associated with a well-known extinction of dinosaurs.

D) All of these are correct.


B) began as clay and silt that were produced by grinding of rocks along ice-age glaciers.

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