Re:Dinosaur extinction

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 11:08 PM 2/28/98 -0800, Charles W. Johnson wrote:
>Dr. David King of Auburn University claims that a 300 km crater 
>caused by an impactor striking Gondwanaland is associated with the 
>P-Tr extinction.

Unfortunately, there is none of the axillary evidence for a major impact at
the P-Tr boundary.  There is no widespread tektites, or shocked quartz.
There is no non-climatic alteration in chemical or isotopic content.

Also, what evidence does he have of the dating?  This is critical.

[The URL you give does not, in any way, present any evidence.  It merely
present the author's model of the extinctions as fact, with no supporting
discussion - something that is this controversial should at least be
presented as undecided, not as fact].

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