Re: dinosaur environs

["King, Norm" <nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu>]

Amado Narvaez asked (01/11/96; 11:03p)

>Would I be correct in telling my students that just as most people 
rarely 
>see a volcano eruption, neither did most dinosaurs? Granted, one of the 
>extinction theories involves unusual volcanic activity. Just ask the 
>citizens of Pompeii. But by and large, would 9 out of 10 Triceratops 
ever 
>have seen a volcano?


Yes, that would be correct!

Even for that hypothesis of volcanic eruption and dinosaur extinction, 
the volcanoes would have been in just one small corner of the earth (most 
people suggest India, in particular)--not everywhere.



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