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

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

This discussion has devolved into a bad Twilight Zone episode (or maybe a
bad imitation of the "Who's on 1st?" comedy skit).
My head hurts.  Dora, please get a copy of the geologic time scale.  The
current authoratative source is at:

http://www.stratigraphy.org/

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:57:34 -0500 Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>
writes:
> 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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