The initial impact has been calculated (Schultz and D'Hondt, 1996) to have been a low angle strike about 20-30 degrees to the horizontal with NNW (about 30 degrees W of N)direction of concentrated ejecta blast. This just happens to put it directly targeting Montana and since there were no geographic high to impede the pressure wave, Although the angle of impact was not sufficient to produce an elliptical crater, its ts total energy was directed away from the impact site, hence no defining central peak formation and a greater amount of ejecta material blanket in Montana's direction. it is reasonable to assume that dinosaurs in Montana were "blasted" off their feet. ---- Poekilopleuron <dinosaurtom2015@seznam.cz> wrote: > Good day, > > I would like to ask, what do you think about the scene in the last (6th) > epizode of BBC´s > Walking with dinosaurs series where dinosaurs in Montana are blasted off by > a giant pressure wave coming from the mexican Chicxulub impact. AFAIK this > pressure wave probably dissapeared after traversing some 900 - 1800 km, not > 3500 km (distance to Montana)? Thank you in advance, Tom
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