[meteorite-list] Mass Extinction, Iridium Anomalies, and Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary in New Jersey

2010-10-03 Thread Paul
Miller, K. G., R. M. Sherrell, J. V. Browning, M.P. Field, W. Gallagher, R. K. Olsson, P. J. Sugarman, S. Tuorto, and h. Wahyudi, 2010, Relationship between mass extinction and iridium across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in New Jersey. Geology. vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 867-870. http://geology.g

Re: [meteorite-list] Mass Extinction Comes Every 62 Million Years, UC Physicists Discover

2005-03-10 Thread Lars Pedersen
Looks like we are next was´nt it 65 Million years ago last time ? ;-) Lars - Original Message - From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:41 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Mass Extinction Comes

[meteorite-list] Mass Extinction Comes Every 62 Million Years, UC Physicists Discover

2005-03-10 Thread Ron Baalke
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/10/MNGFIBN6PO1.DTL Mass extinction comes every 62 million years, UC physicists discover David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle March 10, 2005 With surprising and mysterious regularity, life on Earth has flourished and vanished in cycles of

Re: [meteorite-list] Mass Extinction from Buried Carbon?

2003-07-25 Thread Steve Schoner
Carbonate volcanoes? I think that there is at least one such volcano in Kenya. It exudes a soda, carbonate lava at temperatures at about 1000 degrees. The primary gas from this amazing lava is carbon dioxide. Now the question, If carbonates melt at much lower temps than olivine, could it be th

[meteorite-list] Mass Extinction from Buried Carbon?

2003-07-24 Thread Ron Baalke
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20030721/carbon.html Mass Extinction from Buried Carbon? AFP/ABC Science Online July 23, 2003 A vast reservoir of carbon is stashed beneath the Earth's crust and could be released by a major volcanic eruption, unleashing a mass extinction of the kind that last

[meteorite-list] mass extinction

2002-07-26 Thread James knudson
Hello List, I have been getting e-mails from the list on two different subjects; 26 million year mass extinctions and the sun actually being made of iron. I wonder if these two subjects are related. We all know that the sun has cycles. I am curious if the sun has a cycle every 26 million y