Permian-Triassic impact found

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Researchers funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation have located the site of an impact crater. The crater is believed to be associated with the largest extinction event in Earth's history about 251 million years ago; caused by an asteroid roughly 3.7 to 7.5 miles (6 to 12 kilometers) wide...

The Permian-Triassic impact on the giant landmass, called Pangaea, was the most severe mass extinction in the history of life on Earth.
They used a new extraterrestrial tracer, fullerene,(a third form of carbon besides diamond and graphite) to locate the site.

The researchers will report their findings and reveal the site of the crater at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 13, 2004, during a press teleconference.

Hum, but my guess it`s on Antarctica, or off the coast of China and Japan... :-)


Any takers?

[blobrana]

Yea , i agree that a lava flow that covered the whole of siberia and india would have had a nasty effect on the life-forms...

But, i also sure that the `fullerenes` that they found (everywhere in Permian strata)  indicate that something did crash into us, and, that would have added to the stress of the animals & plants...


Hum, thinking about the crash-site... it`s probably china...

 :-)


Ah ! they have the website up and running now...
http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/astrobio/

beckerImpact is the  password, if one is needed....

[blobrana]

Hum,
how predictable....

http://www.geocities.com/goarana669/permianextinction.html

http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/astrobio/images/LB-1a-high.jpg

Oh well, you heard it here first...

[blobrana]

Hum,
i think the hip way of saying the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction event is the K-T event...






Arn`t we overdue

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