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by the Officer-Drake school. In this chapter, we have seen that the
evidence fits an impact scenario better than a volcanic one. If the
K-T crater could be found, then, as was said about the meteorite-
impact theory in its early days, the volcanic alternative would not be
"required." Finding the crater would establish impact as an observa-
tional fact and ice the cake of the pro-impactors. As G. K. Gilbert
put it long ago when he set out to confirm that impact had created
Arizona's Meteor Crater, it is time to "hunt a star."
