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Meteors+Dinosaurs+Geology = Extinction!
Join Jesse and Chris as we explore the hypothesis that an asteroid ended the Cretaceous AND the age of the reptiles. It's a very compelling scientific story of discovery.
This has been hotly debated back and forth for a long long time, with consensus being reached only recently (since I was in graduate school)
Other options include a massive volcanic outpouring - Deccan Traps in India erupted >1 million cubic km of lava in a million year period, with 50% of that coming before the mass extinction event.
The question is really about what killed so much stuff? How does the Earth respond to…
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