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Seafloor Data Point to Global Volcanism after Chicxulub Impact


Oxytropidoceras

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The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an

underwater volcano meltdown. Why pick just one flavor

of apocalypse? By Rachel Becker, The Verge,  Feb 7, 2018

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16988112/asteroid-chicxulub-mass-extinction-dinosaurs-underwater-volcanoes-magma

 

Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub

meteor strike, University of Oregon, February 7, 2018

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/uoo-sdp020518.php

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/one-two-punch-may-have-helped-deck-dinosaurs

 

The paper is;

 

Joseph S. Byrnes and Leif Karlstrom, 2018, Anomalous

K-Pg–aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced

mid-ocean ridge magmatism Science Advances  07 Feb 2018:

Vol. 4, no. 2, eaao2994 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2994

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaao2994

 

Yours,


Paul H.

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1 hour ago, Oxytropidoceras said:

Why pick just one flavor

of apocalypse?

Ms. Becker should’ve known, it was a scoop of chocolate lava cake and a rocky road for the Dinosaurs.

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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