. . . That did for the dinosaurs at all. Or so a paper published in
Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/266) claims.
"In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid — not volcanoes" |
EurekAlert! (https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/16/death-dinosaurs-it-was-all-about-asteroid-not-volcanoes)
QuoteVolcanic 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.
[Continues . . . (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/yu-ido011420.php)]