In 1980, Walter Alvarez and his group at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered a thin layer of clay in the geologic record, which contained an unexpected amount of the rare element iridium.
Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-scientists-link-comet-asteroid-showers.html
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