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Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
EurekAlert ^ | 10/30/07 | Gerta Keller, etal

Posted on 10/30/2007 1:31:46 PM PDT by crazyshrink

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To: SunkenCiv

ggg


21 posted on 10/30/2007 3:09:49 PM PDT by Fractal Trader (.)
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To: 75thOVI; AFPhys; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ...
A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico.
This Deccan Traps crap has been trotted out at least annually almost as long ago as the Alvarez' theory emerged. There's nothing to this, never has been, and they've got nothing new in this latest version to suddenly transform it into a compelling alternative. "Oh, that big crater, that just happened by coincidence as the volcano eruptions killed all the dinos." Ridiculous BS, always has been, always will be.
 
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22 posted on 10/30/2007 4:30:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: crazyshrink

At least it wasn’t man and his SUVs.


23 posted on 10/30/2007 4:31:28 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: Fractal Trader

Thanks. Just beat me to it. :’)


24 posted on 10/30/2007 4:32:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Megafauna and the attenuated gravity of the antique system:

http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/biganims.html


25 posted on 10/30/2007 4:51:33 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Alvarez found a thin layer of iridium at the level of the die-offs. Is that consistent with the Deccan incidents?


26 posted on 10/30/2007 4:54:59 PM PDT by Does so
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To: Does so

Nope. The iridium layer is ET in origin. But see, that’s not a problem for those who think bolide impacts are like getting hit in the face with a pie plate of whipped cream.


27 posted on 10/30/2007 5:00:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I thought Alvarez had basically strong-armed everyone into accepting his theory...but I recall hearing about the Deccan alternative more than 10 years ago.
Dewey McLean claimed that Alvarez threatened him, which isn't what happened. McLean though felt so much pressure that he had some nerve problems. Apparently he was viewed as being a washed-up old has-been / never-was by some of his academic colleagues at his university workplace. Anyway, he retired or semi-retired, and built a website in which he kept harping on A) the claim that the extinctions were gradual, B) that the extinctions were already taking place when the impact happened, C) that the extinctions may not have been so gradual after all, and D) that volcanism was the main cause of the dinos' end.
28 posted on 10/30/2007 5:05:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Thanks CandS.


29 posted on 10/30/2007 5:07:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: crazyshrink
Just the same old group of disgruntled egg-on-their-face paleontologists who have been having a hissy fit ever since a physicist dared to enter their jurisdiction and tell them what REALLY happened to the dinosaurs.

You know what they say, if it doesn't involve math, it's not science.

30 posted on 10/30/2007 5:10:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker (Democrats are phony Americans)
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To: crazyshrink

CO2 enrichment wouldn’t make plants flourish. Plants have to have CO2, obviously, but they flourish just fine with our current 150 to 300 ppm. Plants flourish from adequate sunlight and water, provided the temps are suitable (the higher up in latitude or altitude, the fewer the plants).

Also, if you’ve seen the movie “Apollo 13”, you know that too much CO2 causes brain asphyxia.


31 posted on 10/30/2007 5:11:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LibWhacker

Well put!!!


32 posted on 10/30/2007 5:11:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Paleo Conservative
from the Wayback Machine, via a 2005 backup of the old hard drive:
Could impact cause a volcano on Earth?
answered by Chuck Wood
Space Studies
Univ. of North Dakota
We believe that broken comets or asteroids - such as machined gunned into Jupiter in 1994 - have hit the Moon (forming an impact crater chain), and a recent scientific report suggests that a line of old impact craters across the central USA was caused by a similar line of impact collisions. In these cases volcanism was not triggered. A big enough impact might trigger volcanic activity, and one scientist suggested that that might be the origin of Iceland, which is very big compared to other ocean hot-spots.

33 posted on 10/30/2007 5:18:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: isrul

From reading your comment I think you would be interested in my Electric Universe Ping List. I will ping you to one of the threads.


34 posted on 10/30/2007 5:47:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Straight Vermonter; crazyshrink
I never did hear if it had an effect on plate tectonics.

Earthquakes by definition have an impact on plate techtonics.

Tsunamis are the *result* of earthquakes. Earthquakes are the *result* of plate tectonics. Plates can abruptly (in the sense of geologic time) shift directions. I've never heard of a theory to account for that.

35 posted on 10/30/2007 6:13:19 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Paleo Conservative
India was located near the antipode of the Chicxulub crater. A meteor impact could explain the volcanic activity on the opposite side of the Earth from the impact.?

Considering the Deccan traps formed 3 million years before the alleged impact and the location antipodal to the Deccan Traps at the time of their formation is now on the floor of the eastern Pacific Ocean that would be a good trick

36 posted on 10/30/2007 6:16:31 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: SunkenCiv
CO2 enrichment does make plants florish. Plants inhale CO2 and exhale Oxygen. While plants do fine in our current atmosphere they do better in a Carbon Dioxide rich environment.
37 posted on 10/30/2007 6:25:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: SunkenCiv
CO2 enrichment does make plants florish. Plants inhale CO2 and exhale Oxygen. While plants do fine in our current atmosphere they do better in a Carbon Dioxide rich environment.
38 posted on 10/30/2007 6:30:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: SunkenCiv
We think the Iridium is ET in origin. It is entirely possible that a volcano could have brought up the Iridium from deep sources within the Earth.
39 posted on 10/30/2007 6:35:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: Swordmaker

The iridium is ET in origin. There were feeble claims by the volcano fans that the iridium could have come from the Earth, but the fact is that the level is far too high for that to be possible. :’)


40 posted on 10/30/2007 6:38:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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