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To: Vaquero
250 mya there were no dinosaurs yet. Then came the big dying. Dinosaurs arrived after that.

You're right. I meant 235 million.
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"The fires they’re referring to were between 250-300 million years ago. Dinosaurs didn’t appear until around 335 235 million ya."

15 posted on 10/27/2015 1:06:32 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Vaquero
250 mya there were no dinosaurs yet. Then came the big dying. Dinosaurs arrived after that.

Aka, the Permian Extinction, believed to be triggered by massive lava outpourings in Siberia and a subsequent release of trillions of tons of of greenhouse gases from burning underground coal deposits. Warming oceans may have released additional huge amounts of GH gases.

17 posted on 10/27/2015 1:41:26 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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The big dying most likely caused by the Siberian traps .....talk about fires! Vulcanism at its most intense


18 posted on 10/27/2015 2:25:50 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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