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Did meteorite strike kill dinos? No, say geologists ANI (Australia) March 5, 2003 Sydney: Contrary to popular belief that a meteorite strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs, geologists from an Australian university say the creatures were killed by geological upheaval. According to Gordon Lister and Ivo Vos of Monash University's School of Geosciences, the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is the best known mass extinction. "Throughout Earth's history, there have been great mass extinctions where most living things are destroyed. We don't know much about them except they were abrupt," Professor Lister was quoted as saying by The Age. Most scientists believe that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the impact of a 12-kilometre meteorite that caused the 180-kilometre-wide Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The impact would have dramatically altered Earth's climate. Prof Lister said that while there probably was such an impact, it did not kill off the dinosaurs. "You have to ask yourself whether this event was as big as you thought it was. You had an impact, but did it cause as much impact as people like to imagine?" he added. And given that geological upheaval had caused most other mass extinctions, it was likely it had led to the destruction of the dinosaurs also. As Prof Lister puts in, "The meteorite strike would have been just the coup de grace. You really start to wonder if we're making a special case (for the dinosaurs). ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
