Re: Extinction scenarios

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Jerry D. Harris wrote:

This is a subject worth more attention.  Would you elaborate please?
Best wishes,
Jim

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> " Excellent point. In addition to horrendous seismic quaking at the
> antipode,"
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>         I don't think there would be a tremendous amount of seismic
> activity at the antipode -- S-waves can't travel through liquid, such as
> the outer core, and thus aren't transmitted _at_all_, and P-waves are
> refracted through the differing densities of various layers in the mantle
> and outer and inner cores, leaving few to propigate directly to the
> antipode.
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