Re: extinction6

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> My answer:
> In my earlier letter (Let's count 3 Energy balance I) I counted with
gipsum
> but in another list letter was written sulfur from the meteorit.

This is no either-or situation. There is sulfur in the impact site
sediments, _and_ there is sulfur in the asteroid.

> In each type of collision the word velocity is the relative velocity of
> bodies. In this situation the effective component of the velocity from the
> viewpoint of deformation, heating, rebound is the right angles to Earth
> that is the vertical component.

Why? The _entire_ velocity is annihilated. The _entire_ kinetic energy is
converted to heat, which then produces the explosion that makes the crater
and blows the ejecta all over the globe.