Everytime there is a report in the media about the exstinction of the dinos, the impact of an asteroid on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico is quoted as the reason.
Given the size of Yucatan I always doubted that an impact there could cause an worldwide mass destinction.
So I browsed the web on this subject and found out, that there are some scientists who challenged this theory and stated, that the crater of the impact, that *really* killed the dinos, still remaines to be found.
Around that time (1989) I got a very interesting europe map showing the land and the ocean floor as 3d structures.
The first thing I noticed when having a close look at it was that the Mediterranian Sea originally must have consisted of two independant parts: one between Spain and Corsica and the other stretching from Sicilia over to Cyprus.
River courses that are now below the sea level can be seen as well as the traces the water left as the land broke at Gibraltar and it poured from the atlantic ocean into the Mediterranian Sea area.
After the "first bassin" was full, the land between North Africa and Sicilia broke and the water masses poured into the next bassin and so formed the Mediterranian Sea (more or less) as we know it today.
My next "discovery" on this map was a "spot" between Norway and Iceland.
From the 3d-underwater-structures it looked as if there once had been a peninsula, which had been blown away by an really deep impact of an asteroid in the middle of that ancient peninsula.
The "cosmic bullet" must have penetrated earth's crust and exploded below - throwing out massive pieces of the crust.
One of these pieces fell back to the ground with its downside up and is known today as the Faroer Islands.
After the crust had been blown away the groud of the crater must have been a huge sea of burning hot, liquid magma. As the stall coastline of this peninsula had widely blown away by the impact, the way was free for the watermasses of what was the Atlantic Ocean in those days to pour all of a sudden onto this sea of burning hot, liquid magma with approximately the size of Germany.
Have you ever watched an drop of water on a burning hot cooking plate?
Just imagine what then must have happened there...
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Next thing I noticed was that the "regular" structure of the eastern part of the Alps massive somehow looked "interrupted" - as if someone had wiped out that part with a huge rubber.
Then I saw that the same was valid for the Anatolia area in Turkey.
And suddenly it struck me like a lightning:
I saw that all those spots were on a virtual curve, as if they had been caused by an similar event like the impact of the broken Shoemaker-Levy 9 asteroid on Jupiter recently...
Meanwhile I sat up an homepage on this subject:
Deep Impacts(please keep in mind that this was my first attempt to create an homepage and that I coded it manually - so don't expect too much eye candy)
You can find all the relevant scans and scetches of the above mentioned maps there.
Please have a close look at them and tell me if I'm just imaginating all that...
