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China volcano may have caused mass extinction
Associated Press ^ | May 28, 2009 | Randolph E. Schmid

Posted on 05/28/2009 12:16:30 PM PDT by decimon

A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsvine.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; creation; evolution; godsgravesglyphs
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1 posted on 05/28/2009 12:16:30 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

China rain ping.


2 posted on 05/28/2009 12:19:10 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
But I thought all the continents were one back then so there was no China; and probably no volcano either.

ML/NJ

3 posted on 05/28/2009 12:26:33 PM PDT by ml/nj
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Can’t be, It was a comet! A comet I tell you! wait no, it was an Ice age! An Ice age I tell you! This will do until we change our minds again.....


4 posted on 05/28/2009 12:42:22 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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Can’t be, It was a comet! A comet I tell you! wait no, it was an Ice age! An Ice age I tell you!

What we have here is a failure of extinction distinction.

5 posted on 05/28/2009 12:52:37 PM PDT by decimon
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Thanks decimon. No chance in Hell, of course, :') but probably better / longer / more detailed / more usable stories are out there, I may go look for 'em...
 
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6 posted on 05/28/2009 12:53:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Thanks decimon.

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7 posted on 05/28/2009 12:54:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Take lots of chocolate and leave a trail of Hershey’s Dark Kisses.


8 posted on 05/28/2009 12:56:02 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Campers: Nature's way of feeding the mosquitoes.)
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To: vpintheak

Comet was K-T extinction, end of the Dinosaurs, some think Vulcanism about the same time in India is now thought to have at least help out.

This one is the P-T extinction end of the mammal like reptiles, giving rise to the dinosaurs.


9 posted on 05/28/2009 1:00:27 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: decimon

What became of all those poor little piggies? Mass bacon?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2084610/posts


10 posted on 05/28/2009 1:04:01 PM PDT by wolfcreek ( The Republican Party shouldnÂ’t open itself like a whorehouse to new voters)
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What became of all those poor little piggies?

They went to market. Smothered in rice.

11 posted on 05/28/2009 1:09:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

This article links to Science Magazine. Did not see there the original. Not that I tried very hard.


12 posted on 05/28/2009 1:11:54 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

LOL!


13 posted on 05/28/2009 1:12:02 PM PDT by wolfcreek ( The Republican Party shouldnÂ’t open itself like a whorehouse to new voters)
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To: decimon

Now that is funny! LOL!


14 posted on 05/28/2009 1:23:24 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Monkey Face

mmmm, dark chocolate...

It’ll have to be a trail of something else, or I’ll be walking in circles.


15 posted on 05/28/2009 1:58:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: decimon

A volcano that shot huge amounts of melamine into the atmosphere.


16 posted on 05/28/2009 2:01:21 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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A volcano that shot huge amounts of melamine into the atmosphere.

Maybe the tectonic plates are melamine. Never thought of that.

17 posted on 05/28/2009 2:12:48 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv

You could make every other one a Chocolate Truffle Kiss...


18 posted on 05/28/2009 3:27:05 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Campers: Nature's way of feeding the mosquitoes.)
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To: Monkey Face

...or maybe just dribble dark chocolate peanut M&Ms out of one corner of a 52 oz bag from one of the warehouse clubs...


19 posted on 05/28/2009 3:35:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Regular M&Ms work...maybe some dark ones for variety...?


20 posted on 05/28/2009 3:37:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Campers: Nature's way of feeding the mosquitoes.)
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