[meteorite-list] Dinosaurs were Not wiped out by a global firestorm ??

From: Paul H. <inselberg_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:39:24 -0500
Message-ID: <20150122113924.5XBP1.50515.imail_at_eastrmwml304>

Dinosaurs were Not wiped out by a global firestorm
Jonathan O'Callaghan, Daily Mail, January 22, 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2921547/Dinosaurs-NOT-wiped-global-firestorm-Asteroid-impact-not-hot-ignite-nearby-plants-study-claims.html

Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing
asteroid (Pioneering new research has debunked the
theory that the asteroid that is thought to have led to the
extinction of dinosaurs also caused vast global firestorms
that ravaged planet Earth.) University of Exeter.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uoe-dco011915.php


Belcher, C. M., R. M. Hadden, G. Rein, J. V. Morgan,
N. Artemieva, and T. Goldin, 2015, An experimental
assessment of the ignition of forest fuels by the thermal
pulse generated by the Cretaceous?Palaeogene impact
at Chicxulub. Journal of the Geological Society, First
published on January 22, 2015, doi:10.1144/jgs2014-082
http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/01/19/jgs2014-082.abstract
http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/01/19/jgs2014-082.full.pdf+html

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Thu 22 Jan 2015 11:39:24 AM PST