Re: Discovery Impact Programs

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Rob Meyerson wrote:

>From memory, the Deccan flows may be a couple of million years older
than the impact.  Perhaps an early release of Dr. Isaac Asimov's
"thiotimoline" (however he spelled it)?
> 
> Last night, the Discovery Channel ran their programs on asteroid/comet 
> impacts all night long.  In the middle of one of them, the narrator made a 
> claim that I have not heard before (and severely doubt).  The program claimed 
> that the Deccan Traps Vulcanism (although the region was not named, but it 
> was clear what they were talking about) started *because* of the Chixculub 
> Impact.  They claimed that the shock from the asteroid collision disrupted 
> plate boundaries and induced massive vulcanism.  Is
> 
> Shalom,
> 
> Rob Meyerson
> 
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