Posted on 10/27/2015 12:40:54 PM PDT by JimSEA
Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London together with colleagues from the USA, Russia and China, have discovered that forest fires across the globe were more common between 300 and 250 million years ago than they are today. This is thought to be due to higher level of oxygen in the atmosphere at that time.
The study which was published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, found that peats that were to become coal contained high levels of charcoal that could only be explained by the high levels of fire activity.
The team used the data from charcoal in coal to propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p(O2)) that mass balance models predict prevailed. At higher levels of p(O2), increased fire activity would have rendered vegetation with high moisture contents more susceptible to ignition and would have facilitated continued combustion.
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Uh oh.
From frozen lions to fiery dinosaurs. FR is really doomed now.
Fiery dinosaurs? That sounds like a dragon.
Yeah, I remember all those fires. Seems like a bunch of black churches burned up in those fires.
The women and children were hit hardest.
It’s all because T Rex would throw his cigarettes on the ground before putting them out.
LMAO!!!!! i really did lol!! that’s maybe the fourth time i typed lol that i really did laugh and am still laughing.
Of course, after the last Ice Age we entered the Fire Age due to excess CO2 and dinosaur poop.
The fires they’re referring to were between 250-300 million years ago. Dinosaurs didn’t appear until around 335 million ya.
Smokin’ in the boys’ room
Smokin’ in the boys’ room
Now, teacher, don’t you fill me up with your rules
But everybody knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in school.
All right!
250 mya there were no dinosaurs yet. Then came the big dying. Dinosaurs arrived after that.
...found that peats that were to become coal contained high levels of charcoal that could only be explained by the high levels of fire activity.No, it could be better explained by the introduction of extraterrestrial carbon, but the gradualist biases of the researchers and the global warming hoax agenda coalesced beautifully into one grant proposal.
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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."
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.
The big dying most likely caused by the Siberian traps .....talk about fires! Vulcanism at its most intense
Re: Siberian traps
Here’s an episode from the fantastic How The Earth Was Made series on that event. Episodes from the series should be around 50 min. This upload, for some reason, is just 36 min.
How the Earth Was Made - Earths Deadliest Eruption - Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B177t5xElQg
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Animal Armageddon The Great Dying - Episode 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV5UJo6Kr5c
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This last one is a college lecture...
The Mother of Mass Extinctions: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3p_8UvWq44
Love this stuff always have.
My dad told me, back in the late 50s, that the dinosaurs probably died by extreme vulcanism (pretty well read for a NYPD beat cop). Later it was determined that the big rock that hit chixulub caused the extinction. Now the pendulum swings back and we speak again of the Deccan Traps...huge lava flows... in western India as a probable cause along with the chixulub event in the Yucatan. And Paleontologist Bob Bakker thinks it was caused by disease brought across land bridges by the dinosaurs themselves.
All very interesting to me
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