[Rockhounds] Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

[J Bryan Kramer]

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J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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Was that Nick Zentner? That would really surprise me.

Yup it was him in his Washington Flood Basalts: <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhjkemEyUo&list=PLwNJg2mCrcQRYmYJzHUv7YxO40JlNbAWe&index=3
> He mentions it around 1:50 but goes into more detail later in the video.

I like his lectures, he taught me how to pronounce serpeninite after all
these years. And to look for vertical dikes where the fissures were.

BK

BK


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:36 PM Andrew Turner <turnea55 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Don't see how the flood basalts in Washington (my home area - Tri Cities)
> could have contributed much to a mass extinction event and surely not more
> than a meteorite/comet impact or even explosive, caldera-like eruptions.
> The flood basalts weren't very explosive events, they are basaltic (similar
> to Hawaii) by definition.  Not very viscous and free-flowing.  So, they
> would definitely affect the nearby area and cause a temperature increase in
> the immediate region, but they most likely wouldn't have a "nuclear winter"
> or large-scale global effect of a meteorite impact.  That time period was
> very active for volcanoes, but flood basalts are a bit different phenomena.
>
> Andrew Turner
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> Was that Nick Zentner? That would really surprise me.
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> Tim Fisher
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> out the dinosaurs
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> Bryan,
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> both events are not so far apart on the geological timescale.
> Most likely both events conspired to the demise of the dinosaurs.
>
> Axel
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid
> wiped out the dinosaurs
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> I watched a lecture about the Washington flood basalts a week ago and was
> interested to observe that the lecturer pinned the dinosaur extinction on
> those volcanos with not one word about Chicxulub. I knew some geologist
> were
> skeptical when the asteroid theory was announced by some physicists but I'm
> surprised to see the resistance still exists this many years later.
>
> BK
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