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Re: Matt: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Dinosaurs Afterall?
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- Subject: Re: Matt: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Dinosaurs Afterall?
- From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello Matt -
--- Matt Morgan <mhmeteorites@geocities.com> wrote:
> Not really, they have been dated precisely by
> several people and different methods to have started
> before the K/T impact.
Given the problems with exact dating at those remote
times, the only way to determine this is going to be
by finding debris from the impact embedded in the
flows.
> Also, there is no evidence for the impact to create
> the traps, except that it is in a roughly opposite >
direction..
It's not a question of "creating", it's a question of
"triggering": something analogous to throwing a match
into an open container of gasoline.
EP
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