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

[Tor Bertin <nightimeshadow@yahoo.com>]

I seem to recall (can't remember the exact reference) fossil bearing lacustrine 
deposits being found in between basaltic episodes on the Indian mainland during 
the Deccan Traps eruptions.

Anyone know anything more about that publication?

--- On Sat, 3/6/10, John Hunt <john.bass@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> From: John Hunt <john.bass@ntlworld.com>
> Subject: RE: Scientists conclude asteroid, not volcanoes, wiped  out dinosaurs
> To: "'Paul H.'" <oxytropidoceras@cox.net>, dinosaur@usc.edu
> Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2:36 AM
> 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
> 
>