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Re: Suspicious impact craters and iridium layers?
In article <20050613.135531.-990415.2.bigelowp@juno.com>, Phil Bigelow
wrote:
> Even the well-studied Chicxulub crater has had its radiometric date
> changed more than once.
>
There's a recent debate about challenges to the identification
of the Chicxulub crater as the "smoking gun" pointing at an impactor as
the reason for the demise of the dinosaurs at
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/chicxulub . Much of this debate has since
been published in the formal literature.
--
Aidan Karley,
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10' N, 02°09' W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
Written at Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:59 +0100
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