[meteorite-list] Paleogene Dinosaurs ???

From: Ted Bunch <tbear1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:05:17 -0700
Message-ID: <C9573DFD.16785%tbear1_at_cableone.net>

Not really. Little islands of dinosaur survival are known to have existed
for short geological times after the K/T impact. The "impact winter" that
followed was not an instantaneous killer.

Ted


On 1/15/11 10:12 AM, "mafer at imagineopals.com" <mafer at imagineopals.com>
wrote:

> guess that shoots down a lot of ideas about that K-T boundary event
> that
killed dinosaurs with fire storms and blast waves.



On 2:34:16 pm
> 01/15/11 "Paul H." <oxytropidoceras at cox.net> wrote:
> A new paper about the
> direct dating of dinosaur bones,
> has been published online in advanced of
> its publication
> in ???Geology.??? It is:
>
> Fassett, J. E., L. M. Heaman,
> and A. Simonetti, 2011, Direct
> U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene
> dinosaur bones,
> San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Geology, first published
> on
> January 5, 2011, doi:10.1130/G31466.1
>
>
> http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2011/01/05/G31466.1.abstract
>
> http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/current
>
> Based on such dating, they
> argue that within the area of what
> is now New Mexico, dinosaurs survived the
> K-P impact and
> became extinct within the Paleogene.
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul
> Heinrich
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