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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