Re: Suspicious impact craters and iridium layers?

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <20050617101722.22181.qmail@web53208.mail.yahoo.com>, Tim 
Donovan wrote:
> Where? AFAIK the stratigraphically highest Indian K
> beds are at Anjar, where Prasad reported K ostracods
> and theropod teeth (and no Paleocene fossils) above
> the iridium layer which supposedly marked the
> boundary.
>
       There is certainly a report (if not several) of a dinosaur 
fossil occurring in an intra-Deccan palaeosol horizon (stressing the 
oft-slipped point that even though the Deccan occurred very rapidly by 
geological standards, that's still a long time in human (and dinosaur) 
lifetimes.
       I wonder if the Laki lavas have developed much soil yet 
(Iceland, late 18th century, the only historical analogue to flood 
basalt eruptions. For those that need their memory jogged.)?
       
       I have a vague memory that another intra-Deccan palaeosol has a 
report of a dinosaur trackway. Lockley's book?
       
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:07 +0100



        
        
                
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