Posted on 02/22/2019 11:10:06 AM PST by ETL
Gary Larson was light years ahead of these guys.
I studied the Traps a few weeks ago. The word is derived from a Swedish term meaning steppe, as in a landform, re: Russian steppes.
A key coincidence between the Deccan Traps and the Yucatan impact crater is that they are anitpodel to each other at the exact same time, but the Traps burned for tens of thousands of years after.
Large asteroid hits Chicxulub resulting in massive local destruction and formation of a crater 100 miles across. The shock wave from its impact travels through the center of the earth and exits at the opposite site producing many deep cracks in the crust that leak large volumes of lava for millennia as well as large volumes of gases that change the climate. The net effect of these direct and indirect effects from the asteroid hit is a mass extinction. Although the Deccan traps so linked are a very large ‘flood basalt eruption’ they aren’t the largest such known on land. That would be the Siberian Traps, the date of which at least roughly coincides with the largest of all mass extinctions, the end Permian extinction. Its reasonable to guess an even larger asteroid hit triggered those ‘Traps’ although a corresponding crater has yet to confirmed.
Swedish I think.
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.
Without your post, I remembered.
What does that say about Larson’s work?
Thanks ETL. Volcanoes my ass.
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Yes, I've heard that idea around, that the force from the Yucatan impact "radiated" around the globe and met at the precise opposite side, at, more or less, the location of the Deccan Traps, *perhaps*, triggering the eruptions.
However, I heard at a recent lecture that scientists were having difficulty in coming up with a possible mechanism for that triggering.
It was Trump’s fault.
Dinosaurs wiped themselves out by smoking. Everyone knows that.
s/
Think of all the culinary dishes we missed out on ....
Drilling in 2016 into the Chicxulub crater found a dearth of gypsum, a sulfate mineral, which is common in the surrounding bedrock. Their theory is that the gypsum that had been in the crater itself was aerosolized by the impact and the gaseous sulfur encircled the planet, causing a nukular winter.
One brontosaurus would have provided a lot of meals. Of course you would not want to try to roast one whole.
Exxon and BP sent the Asteroid. They were forward thinking.
It does, but it's tough. I've tried it once a few years ago.
Yum!
If you marinate it in a mixture of red wine and vinegar, and then cook it in a crock pot, it comes out amazingly tender. The taste is a bit gamy, though.
Thanks for the warning. It looks pretty expensive—55.26 euros for a package that size?
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