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Re: The End of Dinosaurs

To: Multiple recipients of list <dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: The End of Dinosaurs
From: Ray McAllister <mcallist@gate.net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:32:54 -0400
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Sender: dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu

Shasta,
        The idea of plate tectonics does indeed allow for subsidence of a
mid ocean ridge, draining water off the shallow continental sea and
epicontinental seas. But this is a long slow geologic process and we seem
to require a rapid event to terminate the dinosaur reign as abruptly as it
appears to have happened. I think you should relegate this idea to the
same scrapheap as disease from other continents, egg eating, etc.

Ray McAllister, Prof (Emeritus) Ocean Eng., FAU, Boca Raton, FL 33064
Diving Dinosaur, Geologist/Oceanographer/Ocean Engineer, 44 years SCUBA
mcallist@gate.net (954) 426-0808, Author Diving Locations, Boynton/Dania

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