The Origins of Mud

I found another great article that's on the same subject that's on this type of research but it includes a lot more like context and imagery to help us understand it. This other article was called the origin of mud from a magazine called knowable written by a writer named Laura Popick published in august 2020. It starts with an anecdote about him picking through a large fossil formation from about 460 million years ago in Bolivia containing just tons of smothered fish fish that all seem to die at the same time. The explanation for this is probably that there's all this muddy sediment that is suddenly washed into the water into the ocean along the shore possibly by a storm and then the fish underwent death