Drilling Chicxulub

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Drilling Chicxulub Sept 12, 2019 2:17:47 GMT -5 gemfeller, rockjunquie, and 1 more like this

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A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out

By drilling into the Chicxulub crater, scientists assembled a record of what happened just after the asteroid impact.

www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/science/chicxulub-asteroid-impact-dinosaurs.html

www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/04/1909479116

The North Dakota connection mentioned at the end of the Times article, earlier this year:
forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/86971/chicxulub-north-dakota
forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/86996/30-foot-tsunami-north-dakota

Consider the Earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard,
the distance from the King’s nose to the tip of his outstretched hand.
One stroke of a nail file on his middle finger
erases human history.

John McPhee - Basin and Range

parfive gets rocks for Christmas Member since August 2005 Posts: 7,050	Drilling Chicxulub Oct 9, 2019 20:59:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by parfive on Oct 9, 2019 20:59:39 GMT -5 That was tonight's episode of NOVA, with some neat brecciated core samples from the crater. Check your local listings.
	Consider the Earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard, the distance from the King’s nose to the tip of his outstretched hand. One stroke of a nail file on his middle finger erases human history. John McPhee - Basin and Range

rockpickerforever no longer being taken for granite Just plain lazy Member since July 2011 Posts: 9,316	Drilling Chicxulub Oct 9, 2019 23:19:55 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 9, 2019 23:19:55 GMT -5 Watching it now. Thanks for the heads up.
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parfive
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Drilling Chicxulub Oct 22, 2019 2:04:03 GMT -5

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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash

The Chicxulub event was as damaging to life in the oceans as it was to creatures on land, a study shows.

www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/science/chicxulub-asteroid-ocean-acid.html

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