RE: Scientists conclude asteroid, not volcanoes, wiped out dinosaurs

["John Hunt" <john.bass@ntlworld.com>]

For scientists read "everyone but Keller" :) I still don't understand why
there has to be a single cause, and why the Deccan traps must have had no
effect?  Why it has to be one or the other?

The Siberian traps and CAMP seem to have had an impact.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul H. [mailto:oxytropidoceras@cox.net] 
Sent: 05 March 2010 12:59
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Scientists conclude asteroid, not volcanoes, wiped out dinosaurs

Scientists conclude asteroid, not volcanoes, wiped 
out dinosaurs, USA Today, 
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2010-03-04-dinos05_N.htm

Dinosaurs wiped out by asteroid impact that turned 
earth into a 'hellish' place by Richard Alleyne, Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/7368548/Dinosaurs-wiped-out-by-
asteroid-impact-that-turned-earth-into-a-hellish-place.html

Science Team Says Giant Meteorite, Not Volcanoes, 
Killed Dinosaurs, Ed Stiles, Planetary Science Institute, 
http://www.psi.edu/press/archive/20100403chicxulub/

Schulte, S., L. Alegret, I. Arenilla, and many 
others, 2010, The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and 
Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene 
Boundary. Science. vol. 327, no. 5970, 
pp. 1214-1218, DOI: 10.1126/science.1177265
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5970/1214

Yours,

Paul V. Heinrich