Re: [Fwd: Fiery End For Dinosaurs?]

mortongr@flash.net
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:55:29 +0000

>The dinosaurs may have been wiped out in a gas-fuelled firestorm,
>according
>to a new theory.
>
>A "hell on Earth" may have been triggered by vast quantities of trapped
>methane released from under the ground by a comet.
>
>A massive impact in the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago is thought
>to
>have changed the Earth's climate and driven the dinosaurs to extinction.
>
>But a team of American oceanographers believe this is only half the
>story.

I find this to be a poorly thought out scenario. If the firestorm
envisioned by these authors actually occurred, it should have killed the
mammals also as well as the trees. It didn't.
glenn

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