On the occasion of the 2026 National Geology Days, the CPIE Littoral basque offers you this exceptional conference:
The "flysch" cliffs of the Basque coast show in several places the traces of a gigantic catastrophe that shook marine and terrestrial ecosystems 66 million years ago. On the continents, the total disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs put an end to a reign that had lasted 160 million years.
At the end of the 1970s, at a time when the causes of this mass extinction remained totally unknown, a young American geologist and his father, a Nobel Prize winner in quantum physics, sparked an uproar by proposing the unthinkable: it was the fall of a meteorite that killed the dinosaurs!
What follows is a fabulous investigation, forcing scientific disciplines that were previously unaware of each other to work together to find the truth...
The "flysch" cliffs of the Basque coast show in several places the traces of a gigantic catastrophe that shook marine and terrestrial ecosystems 66 million years ago. On the continents, the total disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs put an end to a reign that had lasted 160 million years.
At the end of the 1970s, at a time when the causes of this mass extinction remained totally unknown, a young American geologist and his father, a Nobel Prize winner in quantum physics, sparked an uproar by proposing the unthinkable: it was the fall of a meteorite that killed the dinosaurs!
What follows is a fabulous investigation, forcing scientific disciplines that were previously unaware of each other to work together to find the truth...
Conférence / Colloque / Débat
Nature
Opening- Le mercredi 3 juin 2026 , de 15h00 à 17h00
Prices
6 €.
Gratuit pour les - de 12 ans
Situation
GPS location
Latitude : 43.3776
Longitude : -1.73882
Longitude : -1.73882
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