Chinese-led team shows mass extinction happened in geological 'instant'

Eurekalert ^ | September 19, 2018 | Chinese Academy of Sciences

[ZULU]

The Deccan Traps may have caused massive climatic change also through abnormal v olcanic action.

[MuttTheHoople]

Genesis 6, beginning with verse 10: 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

It wasn't just rainfall that flooded the earth.

[moovova]

“...astrobleme...”

Darn. I thought I had a new word to call liberals...but then I looked it up and found out it’s just a geological term.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

3,000-30,000 years may be a geological instant but it is a VERY long time biologically. A cataclysmic event like an asteroid strike could cause extinction in several months due to starvation or in days due to asphyxiation or widespread environmental changes.

[moovova]

“Are you skeptical of continental drift, general relativity, and molecular genetics as well?”

Don’t forget penicillin.

[SunkenCiv]

The methods they've got to use can't squeeze down to that point, and since the Deccan Traps' oldest dates are millions of years after the P-T extinctiion, they can't possibly be the culprit.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3690392/posts?page=46#46

[SunkenCiv]

It wouldn't, and didn't. Didn't kill the sloths, koala bears, pandas, orangutans, etc, and the dinos were dead more than 60 million years before the date given for Noah. Oh, and with modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build the Ark replicas.