Posted on 10/31/2007 3:08:40 PM PDT by blam
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.
There’s actually another meteor crater (Shiva?) near India from about the same time, more likely to have uncorked the volcanos.
Could have been part of a “swarm” of meteors that impacted roughly at the same time.......
BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!
bump
And weren’t the flood basalt lava flows going great guns in Siberia around the same time? Looks like the egg was hit really hard and sprung a few leaks.
No, I think this one WAS global warming..................
How about this... giant meteor stuck the earth, caused catastrophic volcanism. Geez. lol If something the size of the asteroid that hit the Yucatan were to hit today, you can bet your bobby socks that there would be massive volcanism set off in the Pacific Rim, and plenty of places there haven’t been active volcanoes in many centuries.
The debate is OVER! Meteors struck and Dinosaurs DIED!
IMPEACH!
oh, sorry, I got carried away there.
But your reasonable explanation would not get the headline attention ...
Some days it just stinks to be The Earth.
Yeah, well, but but but. LOL
I get pretty tired of people “rethinking” things which are based on pretty certain science now> For instance, there are several large events that occurred at the same time, or very near the same time as the K-T event. The problem is, the evidence STRONGLY points to layers of iridium allowing dating pretty precisely (within a couple tens of thousands of years anyway) and to just blithely go off saying “Oh it was the VOLCANOES” without taking into account the other facts, isn’t science, it’s now speculation.
There’s also the fact that some things have a cause and effect relationship, including if a very large asteroid plows into the Earth, the whole planet is going to feel it, and other effects are going to happen. Including massive volcanism.
But, what do I know. I’ve only been doing the stuff I do for 40 years. HAHA!
It’s not the slip that causes the damage - it’s the fall...
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.
The death of the dinosaurs may have had more than just one cause.
“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
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