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Catastrophism Ping.
I would imagine that when the meteor hit, it would have triggered massive volcanism all over the planet from the force of the impact on the crust................
Interesting.
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The debate is OVER! Meteors struck and Dinosaurs DIED!
IMPEACH!
oh, sorry, I got carried away there.
SUV’s caused it all and they went extinct too at the same time....only to return now to seek out more revenge on humans.
“Volcanic Eruptions And Global Warming Likely Cause Of Great Dying 250 Million Years Ago”
“Powers and others believe that the same deadly sequence repeated itself for another major extinction 200 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic era.”
“There are very few people that hang on to the idea that it was a meteorite impact,” she said.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071025091047.htm
Very few people believe a meteor impact killed off the dinosaurs? I thought that was still the prevailing theory.
“Earth’s volcanism linked to meteorite impacts”
“Large meteorite impacts may not just throw up huge dust clouds but also punch right through the Earth’s crust, triggering gigantic volcanic eruptions.”
“The idea is controversial, but evidence is mounting that the Earth’s geology has largely been driven by such events.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3171.html
Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
EurekAlert | 10/30/07 | Gerta Keller, etal
Posted on 10/30/2007 4:31:46 PM EDT by crazyshrink
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918560/posts
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Deccan Traps?
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The Deccan beyond the plume hypothesis
http://www.mantleplumes.org/Deccan.html
The widely accepted mantle plume model (e.g., Morgan, 1981; Richards et al., 1989; Campbell & Griffiths, 1990) postulates that (i) the currently active Réunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, is fed by the narrow “tail” of a mantle plume that rises from the core-mantle boundary, (ii) the Deccan continental flood basalt (CFB) province of India originated from the “head” of the same plume during its early eruptive phase near the end of the Cretaceous, and (iii) the Lakshadweep-Chagos Ridge, an important linear volcanic ridge in the Indian Ocean, is a product of this plume. It is not generally appreciated, however, that this so-called “classic” case of a plume contradicts the plume model in many ways. ... snip