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Extinction firestorm theory questionned

By T.K. Randall
December 29, 2009 · Comment icon 4 comments

Image Credit: Don Davis/NASA
The massive asteroid impact that is thought to have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs may not have sparked a global firestorm as scientists had thought according to a new computer model on the aftermath of the collision.
New research challenges the idea that the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs also sparked a global firestorm. Scientists modeled the effect that sand-sized droplets of liquefied rock from the impact had on atmospheric temperature. The asteroid is thought to have gouged out the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.


Source: Space.com | Comments (4)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by ShaunZero 15 years ago
So, if that didn't do it, what did?
Comment icon #2 Posted by Paracelse 15 years ago
Do we have any information on the earth prior to the Cicxulub phenomenon? Was the earth already wobbling on it's axis (precession of the equinox?) Where the continents already in the making? Where the tectonics plates splitting? Too many unknown and reading through the remnant information is like reading through tea leaves... or asparagus I should explain the asparagus argument by adding the link http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=172141
Comment icon #3 Posted by ninjadude 15 years ago
Do we have any information on the earth prior to the Cicxulub phenomenon? yes. tons. See google or a library. Was the earth already wobbling on it's axis of course. It's been doing that for Billions of years. Where the continents already in the making? Where the tectonics plates splitting? of course, the continents have been moving for Billions of years.
Comment icon #4 Posted by karl 12 15 years ago
So, if that didn't do it, what did? Theres a theory that the continuing eruptions of the Siberian traps volcanoes started a chain reaction which caused the gradual extinction of the dinosaurs. Sounds pretty plausible to me.


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