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New Evidence Ties Mass Extinction to Massive Collision
Hillary Mayell
for National Geographic
(February 22, 2001)


About 250 million years ago, when Earth's landmass was one giant supercontinent known as Pangea, the planet suffered its largest mass extinction.

Scientists estimate that the massive asteroid or comet that struck Earth 250 million years ago measured between 3.7 and 7.4 miles (6 to 12 kilometers) wide.

Known as "the Great Dying" among paleontologists, more than 90 percent of the Earth's marine species perished, along with 70 percent of the land's reptile, amphibian, insect, and plant species. This mass extinction preceded the rise of the dinosaurs.

What caused the extinction event has been a matter of heated debate among scientists—until now. Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Rochester have found extraterrestrial clusters of carbon atoms known as buckyballs in sediment samples from China and Japan. Their presence suggests that a massive comet or asteroid collided with the Earth, triggering the catastrophic collapse of life.

The study, which also involved researchers from New York University and NASA, is featured in the February 23 issue of the journal Science.

More than Just Volcanoes

"We've come full circle on the old argument about whether a collision or volcanism caused these extinctions," says lead researcher Luann Becker, assistant professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. "We can say with a good degree of certainty that there's a coupling of the two events."

Where exactly the comet or asteroid hit is unknown. It was probably somewhere between 3.7 and 7.4 miles (6 to 12 kilometers) wide, similar in size to the asteroid that crashed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula about 65 million years ago—the collision thought by many scientists that lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The impact 250 million years ago occurred during a time of extreme volcanism on Earth. Volcanic eruptions can change climates in several ways. Massive amounts of sediment and ash expelled during an explosion can block sunlight from reaching the Earth, causing a significant drop in temperature, inhibiting the photosynthesis that allows plants to grow, and causing food chains to collapse.

Alternatively, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases ejected into the Earth's atmosphere by eruptions trap the sun's heat, sending temperatures soaring, and causing glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise.

When these changes in temperature or sea level occur faster than a species can adjust to them, extinction results.

"If the species cannot adjust, they perish. It's a survival-of-the-fittest sort of thing," says Becker.

But volcanism alone couldn't explain the rapid rate of extinction.

"As paleontologists have gotten better and better resolution on how quickly the extinction took place, it became more and more clear that more than one cause was needed to explain it," says Becker.

"The volcanism went on for millions of years, and the extinctions took place much, much faster." Fossil evidence shows that the extinction took place in 8,000 to 100,000 years—a heartbeat, in geological time.

Buckyballs: Cosmic Stowaways

The collision, which caused the rapid extincitions, left its signature in the sediment layers of the earth in the form of buckminsterfullerenes—buckyballs or fullerenes for short.

Buckyballs are microscopic clusters of carbon atoms that bond together to form a hollow geodesic cage, most frequently described as resembling a soccer ball. The cage can trap gases and is robust enough to survive interplanetary travel.

Becker and her colleagues were able to demonstrate that this form of carbon has an extraterrestrial origin.

The researchers studied the gases trapped within fullerenes found in high concentrations in the 250 million-year-old sedimentary layer, which divides the Permian and Triassic periods. The trapped gases contain forms of helium and argon structurally different from those found on Earth and could only have been formed in the extreme temperatures and gas pressures of outer space.

"These gas-laden fullerenes were formed outside the Solar System, and their concentration at the Permian-Triassic boundary means they were delivered by a comet or asteroid," says Becker.



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We are sure it was a comet collision not sure where the impact was on the planet. Great more conjecture in other words they don't have a clue how the mass extinction took place.

So are you saying the dinosaurs died out through catastrophism ? There is no evidence of this comet impacting earth but there is for strata being spread out through a global flood.

see post# 16427

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

 

[Youwerecreated]

Your confusion seems to be fully a matter of your own inability to not be confused.

Put on your dancing shoes.

No need to. What's comical is that you initially rejected the idea of an asteroid / meteor strike. You subsequently post an article that confirms what most of the relevant science community agrees happened.

You actually refuted your earlier objection. Did you fall down and bump your head when you tripped over your own argument?

You're no different then saws you guys can't recognize fabricated evidence nor can you see conjecture when it is right in your face.

 

[Youwerecreated]

No need to. What's comical is that you initially rejected the idea of an asteroid / meteor strike. You subsequently post an article that confirms what most of the relevant science community agrees happened.

You actually refuted your earlier objection. Did you fall down and bump your head when you tripped over your own argument?

either way it refutes the silly great flood myth.

I've always been curious as to where all the extra water came from to flood the planet and where it all eventually went.

Could it be that ywc will cut and paste some really, really, globally stupid article from a fundie website?

Nah!

Where does all rain and water eventually wind up ?

Now this shows your ignorance. Plate tectonics the water is in the ocean.

Did you know you can saw off Mt everest and drop it in the ocean in some places and when it hit bottom there would be over a mile of water covering it.

 

[Youwerecreated]

Put on your dancing shoes.

No need to. What's comical is that you initially rejected the idea of an asteroid / meteor strike. You subsequently post an article that confirms what most of the relevant science community agrees happened.

You actually refuted your earlier objection. Did you fall down and bump your head when you tripped over your own argument?

either way it refutes the silly great flood myth.

You are not smart.

 

[Youwerecreated]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

 

[itfitzme]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

The ice caps?

 

[itfitzme]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

Plate techtonics made the mountains higher and the oceans deeper?

 

[itfitzme]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
(Proverbs 8:27-29 KJV)

"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
(Genesis 2:5-6 KJV)

Yep, plate techtonics made the moutains higher, the valleys lower. The water eveporated into the sky, flowed into the valleys to create the rivers and oceans, and some became the polar ice caps

 

[Youwerecreated]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

The ice caps?

The ice caps could be the result of the flood.

 

[Youwerecreated]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

Plate techtonics made the mountains higher and the oceans deeper?

Plate tectonics was the result of the fountains of the deep breaking up that pressure would have caused the uplifting of mountains.

There was once one super continent.

Gen 1:9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry [land] appear"; and it was so.


Gen 1:10 And God called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that [it was] good.

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

 

[Youwerecreated]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

The ice caps?

Job 38:29 From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?


Job 38:30 The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.


Job 37:10 By the breath of God ice is given, And the broad waters are frozen.

 

[Youwerecreated]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
(Proverbs 8:27-29 KJV)

"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
(Genesis 2:5-6 KJV)

Yep, plate techtonics made the moutains higher, the valleys lower. The water eveporated into the sky, flowed into the valleys to create the rivers and oceans, and some became the polar ice caps

Ecc 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea [is] not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.

Jer 10:13 When He utters His voice, [There is] a multitude of waters in the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

Amo 9:6 He who builds His layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth--The LORD [is] His name.

Job 36:27 For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,


Job 36:28 Which the clouds drop down [And] pour abundantly on man.

 

[Hollie]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

The ice caps?

The ice caps could be the result of the flood.

What flood?

 

[Hollie]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"
(Proverbs 8:27-29 KJV)

"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
(Genesis 2:5-6 KJV)

Yep, plate techtonics made the moutains higher, the valleys lower. The water eveporated into the sky, flowed into the valleys to create the rivers and oceans, and some became the polar ice caps

Ecc 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea [is] not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.

Jer 10:13 When He utters His voice, [There is] a multitude of waters in the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries."

Amo 9:6 He who builds His layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth--The LORD [is] His name.

Job 36:27 For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,


Job 36:28 Which the clouds drop down [And] pour abundantly on man.

Job 36:28-a: Thou shallest not spameth the board with pointless cut and paste.

 

[Hollie]

Amazing the bible even declares where the water goes.

Plate techtonics made the mountains higher and the oceans deeper?

Plate tectonics was the result of the fountains of the deep breaking up that pressure would have caused the uplifting of mountains.

Only in the juvenile, fantasy world of religious zealots.

 

[t_polkow]

We are sure it was a comet collision not sure where the impact was on the planet. Great more conjecture in other words they don't have a clue how the mass extinction took place.

So are you saying the dinosaurs died out through catastrophism ? There is no evidence of this comet impacting earth but there is for strata being spread out through a global flood.

see post# 16427

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

this may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

 

[Youwerecreated]

see post# 16427

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

this may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

I will pray for you.

 

[Youwerecreated]

see post# 16427

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

this may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

This may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhG4ddVyk54]EVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE By Dr Richard Kent MD - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Hollie]

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

this may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

I will pray for you.

Why? Praying to gawds doesn't actually work.

 

[Hollie]

Unlike you I don't need to read your posts more than once.

this may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

This may help you escape that mind numbing nonsense you try to peddle

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhG4ddVyk54]EVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE By Dr Richard Kent MD - YouTube[/ame]

You should convert to a real religion such as Hinduism. You will have the benefit of many gawds.