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Asteroid strike made 'instant Himalayas'
BBC ^ | 18 Nov, 2916 | Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent

Posted on 11/18/2016 9:20:25 PM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 11/18/2016 9:20:25 PM PST by MtnClimber
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Nonsense.


2 posted on 11/18/2016 9:23:51 PM PST by Fungi
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The asteroid is estimated to be 15 kilometers across (about 8 miles) and travelling about 20 kilometers per second ( alittle more than 10 mils per second) The center of the impact crater is off shore of the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. The crater ring is about 200 km across and the part on shore is still visible.


3 posted on 11/18/2016 9:23:57 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I’m surprised these guys aren’t in government. They sure pontificate like they are.


4 posted on 11/18/2016 9:44:18 PM PST by W. (Journalists go to school to be made stupider, that makes their propagandizing easier.)
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MtnClimber, Thank-you for having posted such intelligent information. May you life be abundant with truth and knowledge.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 9:49:00 PM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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Actually go read the article. It is a non political thing. It is interesting that given enough force rock moves as a fluid, tho knowing a lil about stamping metal into crazy shapes I could have told them that. The interesting thing is the scale of the “stamping press” and the modeled data on the granite substructure and how gravity smoothed it out.


6 posted on 11/18/2016 9:52:41 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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7 posted on 11/18/2016 9:53:14 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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They are long winded for sure. I this the reason for a mass extinction? It will always be a hypothesis unless someone was there to document first hand.


8 posted on 11/18/2016 9:54:05 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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There are also layers dated to the same time showing wide deposits of small spherical rock showing melting and wide dispersion around this site.


9 posted on 11/18/2016 9:57:42 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It's telling enough that there are scattered dinosaurs fossils below that line, and none above, but given the rarity of these fossils hard to claim its a demarcation of the end of the dinosaurs.

More telling still are the Trillions and trillions of Foraminifera below that line. There are virtually none above.

These formed a thick soup of living things at the base of the food chain in every ocean on earth.

Every ocean on earth.

Gone in the blink of an eye.

Gone. In. Every. Ocean. On. Earth.

10 posted on 11/18/2016 10:11:40 PM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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The document of the asteroid hit ia written in the sedimentary layers.


11 posted on 11/18/2016 10:43:28 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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The document of the asteroid hit is written in the sedimentary layers.


12 posted on 11/18/2016 10:44:09 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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There was also a hit that formed the actual Himalayas, the science is there for at least two hits by incoming bodies.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 10:47:45 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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Article: Updated: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains buried circular hills

"Artist's reconstruction of Chicxulub crater soon after impact, 66 million years ago."

14 posted on 11/18/2016 10:52:59 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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I actually got questioned by a local at Panama City Beach on the White Sand Beaches.

Yes, I knew the answer and it was not outer spacey.


15 posted on 11/18/2016 10:56:40 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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Amazing how fluid behavior scales from the smallest fluid drops to the biggest solids...


16 posted on 11/18/2016 11:07:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Condors evolved from hummingbirds.


17 posted on 11/18/2016 11:22:22 PM PST by Original Lurker
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Film at 11.


18 posted on 11/18/2016 11:24:17 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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If all the dinosaurs died off about 65 million years ago (EocenePaleEocene/Triassic periods), then why is Barney still with us?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Yes, the Selenium layer is universal for the asteroid hit about 66 million years ago. Now whether there were two such hits is going to be debated for a while until new information comes in.

As a wise man once said in ancient Greece, “Shit happens”.

PS: My daughter and I once found a dinosaur phalange (possibly foot) bone in a Cretaceous period lake/pond formation that was right under a Paleocene formation in Landover, Md. near the Old Capital Center, now FedEx Field.

You could see a very distinct change in sharks teeth species because we only found one in the Cretaceous and at least 5-6 in the Paleocene sandy formation. The Cretaceous had both alligator and turtle bones, shells/carapaces while the Paleocene had none but the P formation had lots of fish teeth and vertebrae, including a possibly soil mix with Mosasaur teeth and vertebrae in it.

The construction workers for the then Hechinger Building had dug down through the Paleocene overlayer into the Cretaceous below (to put in deep sewer/water lines) and had placed the dug up dirt (down to at least 20 feet or more) and put them into 10-15 ft high piles. Rain washed out teeth, bones, etc, from the pile and mixed them together so that is why we found Mosasaur vertebrae and teeth among the Paleocene materials.

We found the alligator bones/scute and turtle bones/carapace in untouched Cretaceous muck about 3-4 feet between the ground’s surface but it extended down to at least 15-20 feet or more.

This was one way of confirming that something significant happened at the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Paleocene eras.


19 posted on 11/18/2016 11:38:30 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJIvBeVKoQA


20 posted on 11/18/2016 11:41:43 PM PST by LibWhacker
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