[blam]

I nominate the 1628BC explosion of Santorini (Exodus) as a candidate for a meteorite impact.

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Ping.

[onedoug]

'Could say something about the Hawaiian hot spot, which does not apprear tectonically driven. Interesting....

[freedumb2003]

You know, Al Gore invented meteorites. ;)

[dirtboy]

Dallas Abbott from Columbia University and her colleague Ann Isley from the State University of New York studied the timing of these 38 impacts and found that they correlate strongly with eruptions of "mantle-plume" volcanoes during the same period.

Considering, for example, that Hawaii and Iceland are hot-spot (or mantle-plume) volcanic zones, they erupt almost continually, so of course you'll be able to get a correlation with such features. And the impact at the end of the Cretateous down in Yucatan did not create a plume, and that was a biggie. Dittoes for the impact at the southern end of the Chesapeake - I don't see a Mt. Norfolk erupting down there.

It would be more impressive if the researchers were able to correlate major impacts with outbreaks of flood basalts. Now THOSE are truly nasty...

[dirtboy]

For example, the 10 kilometre-wide asteroid that hit Chicxulub in Mexico 65 million years ago is widely blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs. But it could have been a piece from a much bigger rock that hit India, triggering the surge of volcanic activity known as the Deccan Traps.

The Yellowstone hot spot created the Columbia flood basalts. There does not have to be correlation with an impact to get these events. Plus, 65 million years ago, India was very close to the Reunion hot spot, an extremely active one. They need more evidence and less inference.

[VadeRetro]

I nominate the 1628BC explosion of Santorini (Exodus) as a candidate for a meteorite impact.

Doesn't fit the profile. From Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis, it had a long history as a volcanic hotspot before and since the Iron Age biggie that devastated Minoan Crete 70 miles over the water. The Thera (where did you get Exodus?) excavations seem to show pipes for geothermal hot and cold running water.

[VadeRetro]

Not to mention that a big earthquake apparently devastated the city on Thera, leading to its near-total abandonment well before the explosion.

[John H K]

One of the worst candidates you could find. For one, it's not big enough (the article is talking about truly gigantic flood-basalt type eruptions....comparitavely, Santorini was small and localized.)

Also, Santorini is on a plate boundary, and its existence can be easily ascribed to normal tectonic volcanism.

[Consort]

Earth's volcanism linked to lava.

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