Re: Report Sez Volcanic Gases Killed The Dinosaurs

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

These two articles exclusively mention mollusk fossils.   No dinosaur 
fossils.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tommy Tyrberg" <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>
To: <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Report Sez Volcanic Gases Killed The Dinosaurs


> If the Deccan traps date to the K-Pg boundary, then presumably the 
> dinosaurs in the intertrappean beds must be Paleocene? And if so it does 
> seem rather odd that the eruptions should have wiped out the dinosaurs 
> everywhere except in India.
>
> These abstracts:
>
> http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/abstract_130709.htm
>
> http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2006AM/finalprogram/abstract_112451.htm
>
> actually seems to indicate that most of the activity occurred *before* the 
> K/Pg boundary.
>
> Tommy Tyrberg


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