[meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:54:35 -0700
Message-ID: <CF3CB41C0DE744B29E02F19E71B146ED_at_bosoheadPC>

Hmmm....I thought it was aerosol sprays, SUVs and Edison lightbulbs (all
sales of the latter, btw, have been suspended.)



----- Original Message -----
From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:38 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?


> Hi Paul -
>
> The answer is the same thing that killed off many megafuana
> intercontinentally, instantaneously, and simlutaneously: global climate
> collapse, i.l., "nucelar winter".
>
> Now they are two causes of global dust loading, one of which is volcanic
> eruption, the other impact. Since we have no evidence of volcanic
> eruption, we are left with impact.
>
> PS- Sterling, Wrangle Island mammoth were already the size of large dogs,
> so small as to constitute a different species, using the old definition
> based on ability to interbreed.
>
> EP
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