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Re: Chicxulub's Antipode (Re: cause of death at KT)



On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Phillip Bigelow wrote:
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Regarding what type of effects one might have witnessed at the antipode:

- Tsunamic effects would have been minor, because North and South America
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- What about reentering ejecta?  It was probably no worse than elsewhere
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- Seismicity:  Now *those* effects would have been interesting (that is,
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Thermal and atmospheric effects? Superheated (salt) water, release of methane from methane ice (if any), heating of the atmosphere, shock waves, dirt/sediment suspension in the air?