This wind-blown dust deposit (loess) from Tibet

A. forms a world-wide layer associated with a well-known extinction of dinosaurs.
B. was deposited by a huge flood of seawater that covered the land at the time of the dinosaurs.
C. began as clay and silt that were produced by grinding of rocks along ice-age glaciers.
D. All of these.


Answer: C

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