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Rich Barclay in an outcrop named "Big Phone Booth". Bottom of outcrop is carbonaceous mudstone, above that is coal (lignite), then a white ash layer, then Paleocene plants. Thus, the K-T boundary has been crossed in this single outcrop. Evidence of K-T is present in pollen, shocked quartz, Iridium and a 50% extinction rate of plants.
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