Researchers find smoking gun of world's biggest extinction

University of Calgary ^ | January 23, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Caption: Researchers walk through sediments deposited shortly after the worst extinction event in earth history, on the shores of Buchanan Lake, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut.

Credit: Credit: Steve Grasby, University of Calgary/NRCan

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[decimon]

Nunavut matters now ping.

[darkwing104]

Making stuff up again ping....

[Nateman]

The total thickness of the lava layer is one mile thick. Laid down over a period of one million years it was almost too much for life on Earth to survive.

[SkyPilot]

About 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact on global oceans. "This could literally be the smoking gun that explains the latest Permian extinction,"

Or that the Bible is true.

[sodpoodle]

Using semantic forensics; Sodpoodle determined that the use of ‘smoking gun’ and references to coal-burning plants emitting ‘greenhouse gases’ is but a prelude to bringing on another doomsday global warming bogey-man.

Read the article very carefully and match the catch phrases.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Smoking gun or? Coincidence? I think not

Shot at 2011-01-23

[BradyLS]

BUMP that!

[Paladin2]

"...the use of ‘smoking gun’..."

Ya, I'd say we are clearly being targeted by and caught in Waxman's nose hairs.

[Just mythoughts]

About 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact on global oceans.

There is NOT one shred of evidence to date this 'find'. Reading between the lines does seem to point to the 5% of 'life' being that hidden 'origins' also described by some as a hot steaming pot of primordial soup.

I do not doubt their find but their dating is what questions their motives.

[relictele]

Bush’s inaction and delay in ordering FEMA to help out clearly exacerbated the problem.

[Cicero]

An Adjunct Professor? Same grade as Obama. He knows which side his bread is buttered on. Maybe they’ll offer him a tenure slot now.

[chrisser]

So there was a massive extinction event caused by coal 250million years ago - before the dino extinction 65 million years ago.

If coal comes from dinosaurs, where did the coal come from?

[bert]

Enlightenment is a great help.

I would recommend a road trip to Alberta, specifically to the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, to see the largest collection of dinosaur fossils and a wealth of other fossils including those of the Burgess Shale.

The museum is large and a short visit will merely overwhelm with the overabundance of rock solid evidence. Scoffing will hurt your mind in the presence of such scientific wealth.

http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/

[tumblindice]

Chuck Norris ... entire tyrannasaurus mex dinner ... the rest is history.

[microgood]

The gathering of information is one of the most important roles of science and should always be done.

Forming theories about what and why things happened is much more problematic.

[tumblindice]

West Virginia and Pennsylvania mostly.

[Sacajaweau]

On a train.....

[Sequoyah101]

The neat thing about this picture to me is that the layers visible in the mountains were once flat-lying sedimentary rocks. Our time here has been so close to nothing for all this to have happened.

I’ve drilled sedimentary rocks thousands of feet deep near Ellesmere Island. It is all still unbelievable to me. Whether drilling into the planet at 3,000 or 30,000 and seeing rock never before seen or touched is still a an exceptional event.

That the scale of the earth, as in this picture, is so vast and we are so small pales to the reality that all the Earth is less than a speck of dust, infinitely small even, in God’s heaven.

[muawiyah]

The problem here is the 250 million year date ~ not a primordial soup ~ that'd been 3.5 billion years further in the past.

The dating of this overlaps some of the deepest layers in the Antarctic Ice Sheet overlying the Gamburtsev mountains.

The Gamburtsev's are 2.5 miles deep, are older than the Alps, yet show no signs of wear. They date back to the Carbonoferous Age ~ which is WAY back there.

So, too much CO2 led to what? Did Earth get warm and everything died? We might ask why that ice didn't melt.