Posted on 04/25/2016 9:28:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Study of fossil shells solves unanswered question of how deep sea creatures survived asteroid strike during immense upheaval of the world's oceans...
Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after the catastrophic asteroid impact in an immense upheaval of the world's oceans, yet deep sea creatures managed to survive.
This has puzzled researchers as it is widely believed that the asteroid impact cut off the food supply in the oceans by destroying free-floating algae and bacteria.
However, in a study published in the April issue of the journal Geology, a team led by researchers from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences provides strong evidence suggesting that some forms of algae and bacteria were actually living in the aftermath of the asteroid disaster, and that they acted as a constant, sinking, slow trickle of food for creatures living near the seafloor.
The team were able to draw these conclusions by analysing new data from the chemical composition of the fossilised shells of sea surface and seafloor organisms from that period, taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic...
Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled the Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.
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Full title: 'Trickle of food' helped deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs
New data. I guess that’s scientific BS for made up data just like global warming. All new data that nobody can recreate or analyze only the gifted scientists can interpret the tea leaves. Of course they will need millions and millions of dollars in grant money to unlock the secrets that the new data have revealed.
/sarc
This is a theory and unlike anthropogenic global warming theory it is falsifiable. Go for it. But the money could be better spent studying the politics of same sex bathrooms. /sarc
Planet Jupiter not only affects our tides, it captures asteroids that could destroy all life on Earth. (But it missed one). If it wasn't for the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, there wouldn't be a "Rise of The Mammals".
Given that asteroids and comets are discovered passing "unseen", and too close for comfort, efforts of scientists should be directed towards early discovery of these missiles. I'd even approve of government subsidies!
==8-O
Another example of a finding that even if true, has no practical value other than satisfying someone’s idle curiosity.
I’ve come to believe the asteroid strike is about as believable as climate change being man’s fault.
My point is they do not know for sure. There is no direct physical evidence. It’s all theory treated as fact, just like climate change or evolution. Or studies about health and nutrition, social behavior (queers being normal) - all made up crap treated as fact.
Yes, they have physical evidence of the dinosaurs going extinct, and they have physical evidence of asteroids, but to link them together is only theory.
Much of science is junk science.
I wholeheartedly agree -- national defense presupposes no planet-wide extinction event.
Thanks!
LOL! Thanks who_would_fardels_bear, it's nice to see someone post in a GGG topic who actually has an interest in doing something other than being a troll.
The truth is that the earth’s magnetic shield is weakening. But of course governments will not tell people the truth because they cannot tax a natural phenomenon and Al Gore cannot make millions by selling bullshit credits. And Scientists cannot get funding for their made up science. It’s all a big con. I saw a movie once about a person that goes back in time and they know when the Solar Eclipse will occur and they scare everybody into thinking the world will come to an end because they will make make the moon cover the sun. All the people believe it and they think he is a God until they find out it was just a con.
Here is the link if you have the time to see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNMCTBdQtk
-—— taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic...——
there was apparently new data that was in fact scarce. The analysis yielded info from which a hypothesis could be drawn. They were not viewing tea leaves but actual subsurface materials containing actual organic matter that could be analyzed.
As to weather they were gifted or just run of the mill, they went into the field and found something to study and did so. It is real science in action
Trickle-down Dietetics.
;’)
Yeah, why would one want to know his own origin?
There is plenty of direct physical evidence of the Chicxulub impact. Why don't you google it. It is fascinating stuff.
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