Giant Impact Near India -- Not Mexico -- May Have Doomed Dinosaurs

The Geological Society of America ^ | Oct 15, 2009 | Unknown

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

[Robert A Cook PE]

i belive the earth is around 6 thousand years

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Well, er, no.

The earth is a round about 8000 miles across. Not a 6000. 8<)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Certainly is reasonable that there could be a second crater from the same comet/collision.

Jupiter was clobbered recently by a series of 8 fragments, and the Decca Traps lava flows are at the same time period. Thru-earth resonances of the one Yucatan peninsula collision don’t seem to be large enough to create enough of a hole to release that much lava volume.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thanks decimon for the topic and ping.

decimon wrote: Bang galore ping.

As opposed to a Bangalore torpedo blowing a hole in a theoretical pipeline?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thanks decimon for the topic and ping.

decimon wrote: Bang galore ping.

As opposed to a Bangalore torpedo blowing a hole in a theoretical pipeline?

[xcamel]

one-eyed-jack.

[xcamel]

This theory might be much closer to right than we think. There is another huge crater under the Ross ice shelf, from about the same period of time.

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Creationists simply keep the pain killer racket in business.

[decimon]

one-eyed-jack.

And wild.

[Question_Assumptions]

Just as with Shoemaker-Levy breaking up to cause a string of collisions, there is no reason why there couldn’t have been multiple impacts at or near the same time.

[GraceG]

>>At least those of us who believe in telescopes do...<<

Light refraction and space telescopes are the work of Satan, Satan I tells you!

[GraceG]

>> Some complex craters are among the most productive hydrocarbon sites on the planet.

When these meteors hit they must crush a gazillion dinosaurs at a time to generate that much oil at the impact site. <<

Actually if the impact is reason there are now large amounts of easily accessible hydrocarbons it could boost the abiogenic theory of oil production...

That theory states that oil is formed in the lower cryst/mantle and heat forces it upwards. That most Oil if formed via internal non-biological processes.

The impact could create an easy means for this oil formed at deep depths to drift upwards in the crust and concentrate around the impact area for many years following the event.

[GraceG]

>> This theory might be much closer to right than we think. There is another huge crater under the Ross ice shelf, from about the same period of time. <<

The more we learn about these impact craters the more we realize that the earth would indeed look like the moon had it not had weather and water to wear down the evidence of those events.

[GraceG]

>> Yes, there are Freepers who believe that the earth is 6000 years old, that Adam and Eve lived among the dinosaurs (and that dino bones were put on earth by the old man in the sky to “fool us”). <<

They must think that God is like Karl Rove and is a “Magnificent Bastard”

[xcamel]

The biggest one is the basin in South Africa, IIRC.

[BIGLOOK]

That's a mighty big impact event. We have had and still have a guardian out there to deflect or intercept incoming threats, our moon.. Gotta ask....Do you think there once was an event or a few events that were caused by asteroid collisions that could extinguish all the mega fauna worldwide in a singular cosmic stroke?

My tendency to reply humorously on serious subjects is a reflex reaction....one that prolongs survivability.

[remaxagnt]

when someone can show me 100% scientific proof that earth is older than 10k years ill believe it. so far no proof just hopes and dreams of fake science

[remaxagnt]

maybe satan put the bones in earth. the bible does say satan is the god of the earth. it also says satan will use writted words to decieve our children.

[colorado tanker]

So what if Adam and Eve didn't live among the dinosaurs? Victoria Vetri did. Hubba, hubba.

[colorado tanker]

I’ve always wondered if the Yucatan event was quite big enough to cause a mass extinction all over the earth, but this thing was a monster.