Re: Mega eruption may have wiped out [Cambrian] life

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Well, in the case of the end-Cretaceous exctinction, we know that two events 
happened at that time that each alone could have possibly caused it, so it 
is reasonable to think they both contributed.

It sound like K/T Dykes needs a review (honestly, I hadn't thought this 
obscure information - even I know it off the top of my head!), so that would 
be the flood basalt vocano field in India, and the meteorite in Mexico.   I 
am confused, because the three posts I have from Mr./ Ms. Dykes, who never 
signed the posts and whose first name is not in his or her address, is 
arguing with his or herself on this.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
To: <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: Mega eruption may have wiped out [Cambrian] life


> <<I'd wager that it takes more than just a single event (probably even 
> more
> than two coincidental events) to cause a mass extinction.
>
> There's a heck of a difference between that, and concluding it was two
> events what probably did it, Dann.  As you point out several other
> possibilities, I doubt that first sentence is exactly controversial. 
> Doing
> something as mundane as bunging in a landbridge between North and South
> America, for example, could have interesting effects on sea flows.  And 
> you
> don't need  a weatherman to know that affects how the wind blows...  (With
> thanks to Bob Dylan.)
> > --
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> >
> > Dann Pigdon
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