This is definitely a candidate for CATASTROPHISM ping list.
I wonder what they said when they saw the tsunami approaching.
This is absolutely fascinating! What an impressive bit of scientific detective work. But what will it mean to the LGBTQ movement? /do I really need the “s” tag?
Really cool video at the site which shows its remote location. I wonder how Mr. DePalma knew where to look?
The article really brings to life (pun intended) how terrifying that day must have been. That is some climate change we ought to think about preventing from occurring again.
Side note: the Yucatan peninsula is named after a mayan phrase. When the Spanish conquistadors asked the locals the name of this place, the locals replied “Yucatan”. So that’s what the Spaniards called it. What does Yucatan mean? It means “I can’t understand what you’re saying” in Mayan.
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Thanks for posting this. What a fascinating site that place must be.
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
“... 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.
“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.
Hat tip to Dave Barry
This is a major find. Thanks for posting.
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.
The rabid leftist New Yorker gets no clicks from me, no matter how great the non-political content.
Ping to more evidence of asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
Wow!
What a terrible day that must have been.
I’m glad our rodent/insectivore ancestors were burrowing underground at the time!
Very impressive, thank you.