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Re: impacts are cool!



What if the impact(s) were/was in the ocean?  Which the odds would seem to
favor.

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> From: wa105@mead.anglia.ac.uk
> To: Sankarah@ou.edu
> Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: impacts are cool!
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 12:35 PM
> 
> 
> No, no, no!  An impact would have raised vast amounts of dust into the 
> atmosphere, blocking out sunlight and thus cooling the world.  C.f.
Krakatau, 
> nuclear winter, etc.  I will concede that it's consistent with regression
too, 
> in that regression could be caused by polar ice cap growth.
> 
>                                                                       Bill