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Re: New date for Chicxulub?



On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Phil Bigelow wrote:
Does anyone know where Harting published this report?

New York Times, April 4, 2006, page D3 (print version)

"Timing is everything when it comes to the Chicxulub crater, as well.
That's the huge hole created in the Yucatan 65 million years ago by a
space rock that produced the swarm of dust and fire around the globe.

"Whether that impact wiped out the dinosaurs has been a subject of much
debate in recent years, with a succession of studies supporting one side
or the other.  Now a new analysis, by Markus Harting of the Universisty
of Utrecht in the Netherlands, offers evidence that Chicxulub happened
earlier than the extinction.

"The study, of tiny spheres of glass created by the heat of the impact,
puts the event 300,000 years before the date of the mass extinctions."

http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/06-14.htm 29 March 2006 GSA Release No. 06-14 More Evidence Chicxulub Was Too Early

 Boulder, Colo. - A new study of melted rock ejected far from the
 Yucatan's Chicxulub impact crater bolsters the idea that the famed
 impact was too early to have caused the mass extinction that killed
 the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
 ...

abstract:

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/06boa/finalprogram/abstract_101180.htm
Backbone of the AmericasPatagonia to Alaska, (3 - 7 April 2006)
Paper No. 5-18
Presentation Time: 10:35 AM-7:45 PM
GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION OF CHICXULUB-IMPACTEJECTA - NEW CONSTRAINS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE CARIBBEAN
HARTING, Markus, Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earthsciences, Budapestlaan, P.O. Box 80021, Utrecht 3508 TA Netherlands, m.harting@geo.uu.nl