Re: Report Sez Volcanic Gases Killed The Dinosaurs

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Reposting this.   List setup makes it very easy to fail to post to the 
> list.

Yes, but as I wrote you offlist, I don't see what your reply has to do with 
my original post, the conclusions of which have nothing to do with wind or 
sea currents.

> > > Actually, I think that direction of wind flow, and currents, would tend 
> > > to govern the ash flow, and not a whole lot else - by a couple of weeks 
> > > after any given event.   I think that conceivably it would matter if 
> > > events were at mid latitude, equatorial, or elsewhere, because I think 
> > > that it did in the case of the Sumatra volcano that caused the Year 
> > > Without a Summer. (Sumatra had more than one catastrophic volcano in the 
> > > 19th century.) Otherwise, once dust and gas got into the atmosphere, it 
> > > was everywhere.
> > >
> > > > > If it can assumed that the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact
> > > > > took place at approximately the same time,
> > > >
> > > > Again: no, they did not. The main episode of eruptions was over 100,000 
> > > > years before the impact, and smaller episodes happened long before and 
> > > > after.