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Death in the deep: Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction
AFP ^ | Jul 16, 2008 | Unknown

Posted on 07/16/2008 11:35:55 AM PDT by decimon

PARIS (AFP) - Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today.

Palm trees grew in what would be Alaska, large reptiles roamed in northern Canada and the ice-free Arctic Ocean warmed to the equivalent of a tepid swimming pool.

So our planet was balmy -- but hardly a biological paradise, for it was whacked by a mass die-out. The depths of the ocean suddenly became starved of oxygen, wiping out swathes of marine life.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; chicxulub; dinosaurs; environment; geology; gertakeller; paleontology; volcanoes
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To: decimon

And you.


21 posted on 07/16/2008 1:16:19 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: RightWhale

Pole flip? What is that?


22 posted on 07/16/2008 2:23:59 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

A pole flip is when you find you are suddenly in the Arctic one morning, or if you were in the Arctic, then you find you are suddenly in the Tropics. You may find your language to be freshly tropical as well.


23 posted on 07/16/2008 2:28:12 PM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: RightWhale

I think you’ve confused the axis of the earth with it’s magnetic poles. They are not the same. The earth has not “flipped” on it’s axis has it?


24 posted on 07/16/2008 2:38:14 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

It has, many times. Einstein was in contact with Hapgood about this in the 50s. Nothing can be done about it except to allow global warming. LOL


25 posted on 07/16/2008 2:42:18 PM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: decimon

> I think the volcanoes came in on giant asteroids.

:’D Good one. :’) :’)

Northern Crater Shows Prehistoric Deep Impact
[23 million years ago]
Alaska Science Forum | July 7, 1998 | Ned Rozell
Posted on 08/28/2004 11:49:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1201791/posts


26 posted on 07/16/2008 9:40:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: RightWhale

I could have sworn we just had a topic about pole shift / magnetic pole shift, but maybe I’d just recently visited one of these:

North By Northwest
Science News | 12-21-2007 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 12/21/2007 3:13:32 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943002/posts

The Day The Earth Fell Over
Live Science.com | August 25, 2006 | By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer
Posted on 08/26/2006 4:20:53 AM PDT by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690330/posts


27 posted on 07/16/2008 9:43:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ..
Thanks decimon.
 
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28 posted on 07/16/2008 9:44:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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