It Wasn't the Volcanoes

[Recusant]

. . . That did for the dinosaurs at all. Or so a paper published in Science claims.

"In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid — not volcanoes" | EurekAlert!

Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all about the asteroid.

In a break from a number of other recent studies, Yale assistant professor of geology & geophysics Pincelli Hull and her colleagues argue in a new research paper in Science that environmental impacts from massive volcanic eruptions in India in the region known as the Deccan Traps happened well before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago and therefore did not contribute to the mass extinction.

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[Tank]

Very interesting article.