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Dinosaurs, to be specific.
[url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dinosaur_death_040526.html[/url]
[url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dinosaur_death_040526.html[/url]
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makes sense really; all that crap being kicked up has gotta do some serious damage when it comes back down
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[B]Lets hope that never happens to us! [/B][/QUOTE]
Na, we don't need a big interstellar rock to kill the human race.
We can do that all by ourselves!
Physical Geograpgy 1Bh
-Climate Change
-How Humans Have Fucked The Planet
so yeah, we dont need any help
I've always liked space.com...
;)
I particularly like the topic of ancient asteroid impacts and extinctions...
Cheers!
[B]Na, we don't need a big interstellar rock to kill the human race.
We can do that all by ourselves! [/B][/QUOTE]
Very true.
[B]I particularly like the topic of ancient asteroid impacts and extinctions...[/B][/QUOTE]
Same here.
I think you liked also volcanoes so here's one site:
[url]http://www.gns.cri.nz/what/earthact/volcanoes/nzvolcanoes/index.html[/url]
Nice photos about "real" geysir:
[url]http://www.gns.cri.nz/what/earthact/volcanoes/nzvolcanoes/waimanguprint.htm[/url]
And there's also photos from White Island.
Good looking water in that lake inside crater.:D
[url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/asteroid_paine_october.html[/url]
Very nice description about effects of impact.
[quote]A possible link between impacts and volcanism became evident in 1974 when the Mariner 10 spacecraft flew past the innermost planet Mercury. The planet was found to be covered with impact craters like the moon. One giant impact crater on Mercury was particularly interesting. Directly opposite the impact point, on the other side of the planet (called the "antipodal point") was a region of highly disrupted terrain with no evidence of an impact. The shock waves from the impact on one side of Mercury had traveled around the surface and met simultaneously at the antipodal point to create the chaotic features.[/quote]I think there's same kind of situation in Mars.
[quote]Astronomer Duncan Steel has suggested that the same occurred with the Chicxulub impact and that the shock waves caused the Deccan Traps. Taking into account millions of years of continental drift, this region would have been at the antipodal point to Mexico at the time of the impact. Although the eruption may have contributed to the suffering, it now seems more likely that the Deccan Traps were just a consequence of the catastrophic initial event, the Chicxulub impact.[/quote]
That's what I've suspected long, timing is just so close.
[url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/great_dying_040513.html[/url]
And around of that time happened one of the biggest known eruptions in area of Siberia.
[B][url]http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/great_dying_040513.html[/url]
And around of that time happened one of the biggest known eruptions in area of Siberia. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, I suspected that myself for a while too.
In reading about the Siberian and Deccan Trapps I kept wondering if they were the opposite side of the Earth during the big smacks, and it looks as though that's the case as more people study the geological record.
It always cracks me up how many people will look for one simple answer to a catastrophy, but usually the truth is that it is a chain reaction of many things.
About a year or so ago in TLC or TDC they had a special concerning the K-T boundary. The guy they were talking to was doing tests on atmospheric content of the time before and after the implied impact event. How you might ask?
Spectral Analysis of trapped gasses inside of Amber. Amber known to have been created before the event, and amber created (geologically speaking) shortly after the event.
It seems there was a lot less Oxygen in the Atmosphere afterwards. :p
The larger dinos of the time didn't have diaphrams, but instead used chest muscles to breath, or something along that line.
So where did al lthe oxygen go? Why it was the world wide firestorms no doubt, that and the sulpheric acid raining down on everything ... Tough times for large creatures of that day for sure...
:)
I wish I could find that TV Documentary on dvd or tape. That was a clever and cool study! ;)
:D
I know you have told me before that you live right amoung them, but it really didn't click until a few minutes ago when I saw the layout of the land there...
:eek:
And you'd think I could spell Auckland right by now too... :p
[B]Lots of ash, not much damage to the wider area. All you'd have to do is stay inside, wear a mask outside, and be sure to sweep your roof regularly.[/B][/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say that volcano producing of ash and pumice couldn't do damage. If eruption is rapid enough that eruption column can collapse and form pyroclastic flows.
Also Taupo's last big eruption was pretty explosive and caused collapse of volcano.
[url]http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestVolcano.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/[/url]
Here's some nice pics
[url]http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/world/tpgallery.cfm[/url]
[url]http://www.volcanolive.com/[/url]
Check Indonesia from maps-section.
[url]http://www.volcanolive.com/murphy.html[/url]
[url]http://www.volcanolive.com/quotes.html[/url]
LOL :D
[B]I wouldn't say that volcano producing of ash and pumice couldn't do damage. If eruption is rapid enough that eruption column can collapse and form pyroclastic flows.
Also Taupo's last big eruption was pretty explosive and caused collapse of volcano.[/B][/QUOTE]
Taupo wasn't an ash fountain though. Sure, we could have another eruption that big, but the chances of that are far less than of having an eruption in the Auckland field.