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Re: Is the "KâT boundary" now the "KâPg boundary" ?
In a message dated 11/2/2009 4:12:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
oxytropidoceras@cox.net writes:
<< The people on this list, who work with the K-T Boundary might
consider the likelyhood that the recent formal ratification of the
Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch
systems has changed the "K-T Boundary" to the "K-Pg Boundary" >>
This has been dicussed on the DML numerous times. For an example see:
_http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Jun/msg00088.html_
(http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Jun/msg00088.html)
"K/T" has a nice ring to it and will take a good generation to disappear,
I'd think. "K-Pg" is a bit clumsy and I didn't know she was pregnant. Now
back to my illustration of Trachodon. DV