Posted on 03/29/2019 10:25:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
can you imagine? 100-200mph little glass beads by the hundreds of millions bombarding everything living and not living - in North Dakota, from a meteor strike in Yucatan
Daily Mail has a little map of the US here, with their story, that shows ND and the Yucatan. :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6865903/The-deathbed-dinosaurs-Dig-uncovers-66-million-year-old-fossilized-graveyard.html
#3. Re “I wonder what they said when they saw the tsunami approaching”.
I know. It was “Let’s rename this place Schitt’s Creek”.
(There is a funny TV/cable comedy by that name).
However, I see an Ichthyasaurous and Mosasaur in the large photo, plus what looks like a smaller fish, etc. This is a fantastic fine. It will define what happened about 66 million years ago, plus show that there were Tektites created from objects that crashed into the earth, not only the ones we have categorized as coming from the Moon and/or Mars. I have one of the Thai black tektites but it is oblong, not spherical.
Amazing that we can hold things in our hands millions, hundreds of millions or billions of years old, be they from space or the early formation of the earth. Nature is marvelous. We need to enjoin it’s show more.
My impression is that geologists and geo-physicists have pretty much given up on a space object impact in Canada around 13,000 years ago.
It's a fantastic theory - meteor strikes one mile thick glacial ice - but the supporting evidence is just really, really thin.
One small correction - the last major ice age began to end around 20,000 years ago. There was a significant North American cold spell (Younger Dryas) that began about 13,000 years ago.
Whether or not the cold spell had an impact on the mass extinction in North America, and whether a space object might have caused or ended the Younger Dryas, are definitely still being debated.
“... a seiche (pronounced saysh), a standing wave, in the inland sea that is similar to water sloshing in a bathtub during an earthquake ...”
A standing wave is created in the same bathtub when you dump a bunch of rocks into one end. The rocks displace an equal volume of water that is pushed up the water column and stands on the top of the water moving at the same speed that the rocks entered the water.
Thanks for posting this!
cheers, ‘Pod.
Thanks for posting.
That’s a really exciting article.
The location is geologically prolific, too.
Much of North Dakota was flattened by glaciers.
Only a few hundred miles away, huge glacial lakes collapsed and sent end-of-the-world floods into the northwestern states.
And less than a thousand miles away, the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies has many of the finest Cambrian fossils ever found.
An old Hell on earth
“In 1979, Alvarez and his father, Nobelist Luis Alvarez of UC Berkeley”
His dad invented some serious stuff during WW2, including a radar that, believe it or not, had its signal appear to WEAKEN as it got closer to its target. So German subs that were up for air would see a weakening signal and not worry about it...and then BOOM!
His grand dad was no sleazebag either, and grandmother was a famous artist. This Alvarez geologist dude comes from some serious blood and he’s carrying it on. I guess complacency and laziness are not permitted in that family.
“But what will it mean to the LGBTQ movement?”
Or “How does it help the LGBTs with the ABJECT DISCRIMINATION they face every day? Seems to be some pretty useless work, when viewed from an ‘equal rights’ perspective.’”
I like to post garbage like that when I’m trolling around on other sites.
I am sure it will prove that homosexuality is normal and natural as they will prove some of those paddlefish identified as sturgeons and wore beads...
/s
Hat tip to Dave Barry
Exactly. They view everything through the lens of their genitalia which is pretty weird if you ask me.
This is a major find. Thanks for posting.
Cowabunga!
Just seems like it.
PS - Either I can't understand it or you left a word out of your tagline.
Fascinating article about this here => https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died,
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What an incredible article. An unknown 37 year old graduate student makes one of the greatest scientific finds ever (most likely). His main claim to fame up to this point is he’s an unpaid curator at a tiny museum in Wellington, Florida.
Really cool video at the site which shows its remote location. I wonder how Mr. DePalma knew where to look?
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A private collector told him about the site. The collector considered it worthless because the fossils would crumble when exposed to air.
DePalma’s undergraduate advisor many years ago told him to look for an ancient pond site close to the KT boundary. I guess DePalma put out the word in the local community. Even DePalma thought the site was worthless at first.
Great post :)
Ridiculous number of years.
And we are “extending” the life span from the low 70s to the low 80s :)
Relatively speaking, that’s a lot.
Against a billion years, not so much :)
The rabid leftist New Yorker gets no clicks from me, no matter how great the non-political content.
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