[dirtboy]

Think of "hydrostatic shock" on a planetary scale.

I would be more inclinded to look at the lunar model, where large impacts from billions of years ago filled up with lava. A large impact could cause an eruption. In the case of the Shiva crater, it landed right off the west coast of India, where the Deccan traps are located. And the Siberian traps are large enough to have covered a major impact crater, and it would be very difficult to locate an impact structure under it.

[Poohbah]

But there are also signs of other volcanic eruptions--massive ones--thousands of kilometers away. So Earth bleeds out of the entry wound, and there's an exit wound, and everyone insists that there was a second mass driver on the Grassy Knoll of Nix Olympica (c8

[NicknamedBob]

"...the Siberian traps are large enough to have covered a major impact crater..."

What were the Siberians trying to trap? Why did they need such large traps? Could this have led to the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth? (We know they built their huts out of them.)

< removing tongue from inside cheek before crater forms >