Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?

EurekAlert ^ | 10/30/07 | Gerta Keller, etal

[Fractal Trader]

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[SunkenCiv]

A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico.

This Deccan Traps crap has been trotted out at least annually almost as long ago as the Alvarez' theory emerged. There's nothing to this, never has been, and they've got nothing new in this latest version to suddenly transform it into a compelling alternative. "Oh, that big crater, that just happened by coincidence as the volcano eruptions killed all the dinos." Ridiculous BS, always has been, always will be.

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[Tarpon]

At least it wasn’t man and his SUVs.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. Just beat me to it. :’)

[Fred Nerks]

Megafauna and the attenuated gravity of the antique system:

http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/biganims.html

[Does so]

Alvarez found a thin layer of iridium at the level of the die-offs. Is that consistent with the Deccan incidents?

[SunkenCiv]

Nope. The iridium layer is ET in origin. But see, that’s not a problem for those who think bolide impacts are like getting hit in the face with a pie plate of whipped cream.

[SunkenCiv]

I thought Alvarez had basically strong-armed everyone into accepting his theory...but I recall hearing about the Deccan alternative more than 10 years ago.

Dewey McLean claimed that Alvarez threatened him, which isn't what happened. McLean though felt so much pressure that he had some nerve problems. Apparently he was viewed as being a washed-up old has-been / never-was by some of his academic colleagues at his university workplace. Anyway, he retired or semi-retired, and built a website in which he kept harping on A) the claim that the extinctions were gradual, B) that the extinctions were already taking place when the impact happened, C) that the extinctions may not have been so gradual after all, and D) that volcanism was the main cause of the dinos' end.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks CandS.

[LibWhacker]

Just the same old group of disgruntled egg-on-their-face paleontologists who have been having a hissy fit ever since a physicist dared to enter their jurisdiction and tell them what REALLY happened to the dinosaurs.

You know what they say, if it doesn't involve math, it's not science.

[SunkenCiv]

CO2 enrichment wouldn’t make plants flourish. Plants have to have CO2, obviously, but they flourish just fine with our current 150 to 300 ppm. Plants flourish from adequate sunlight and water, provided the temps are suitable (the higher up in latitude or altitude, the fewer the plants).

Also, if you’ve seen the movie “Apollo 13”, you know that too much CO2 causes brain asphyxia.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put!!!

[SunkenCiv]

from the Wayback Machine, via a 2005 backup of the old hard drive:

Could impact cause a volcano on Earth?
answered by Chuck Wood
Space Studies
Univ. of North Dakota

We believe that broken comets or asteroids - such as machined gunned into Jupiter in 1994 - have hit the Moon (forming an impact crater chain), and a recent scientific report suggests that a line of old impact craters across the central USA was caused by a similar line of impact collisions. In these cases volcanism was not triggered. A big enough impact might trigger volcanic activity, and one scientist suggested that that might be the origin of Iceland, which is very big compared to other ocean hot-spots.

[Swordmaker]

From reading your comment I think you would be interested in my Electric Universe Ping List. I will ping you to one of the threads.

[Bernard Marx]

I never did hear if it had an effect on plate tectonics.

Earthquakes by definition have an impact on plate techtonics.

Tsunamis are the *result* of earthquakes. Earthquakes are the *result* of plate tectonics. Plates can abruptly (in the sense of geologic time) shift directions. I've never heard of a theory to account for that.

[qam1]

India was located near the antipode of the Chicxulub crater. A meteor impact could explain the volcanic activity on the opposite side of the Earth from the impact.?

Considering the Deccan traps formed 3 million years before the alleged impact and the location antipodal to the Deccan Traps at the time of their formation is now on the floor of the eastern Pacific Ocean that would be a good trick

[Swordmaker]

CO₂ enrichment does make plants florish. Plants inhale CO₂ and exhale Oxygen. While plants do fine in our current atmosphere they do better in a Carbon Dioxide rich environment.

[Swordmaker]

CO₂ enrichment does make plants florish. Plants inhale CO₂ and exhale Oxygen. While plants do fine in our current atmosphere they do better in a Carbon Dioxide rich environment.

[Swordmaker]

We think the Iridium is ET in origin. It is entirely possible that a volcano could have brought up the Iridium from deep sources within the Earth.

[SunkenCiv]

The iridium is ET in origin. There were feeble claims by the volcano fans that the iridium could have come from the Earth, but the fact is that the level is far too high for that to be possible. :’)