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https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/09/what-killed-dinosaurs-and-other-life-earth
I have been studying this subject of flood basalts since the Pacific Northwest and Idaho, where I am originally from, was impacted quite heavily by them. In fact my home town is right on the eastern edge of one and I always wondered why the rock formations changed so suddenly in my area as one moves eastward.
Today this article popped up in my daily reading and I found it encouraging that some scientists are rocking the asteroid theory boat and following the clues that lead to other possibilities, just as the Big Bang has come under closer scrutiny as new discoveries point to different possibilities.
60:2.3 (687.4) These massive creatures became less active and strong as they grew larger and larger; but they required such an enormous amount of food and the land was so overrun by them that they literally starved to death and became extinct—they lacked the intelligence to cope with the situation.
The Papers provide a much earlier date for these immense lava flows:
57:8.11 (661.5) This entire age was characterized by frequent and violent storms. The early crust of the earth was in a state of continual flux. Surface cooling alternated with immense lava flows. Nowhere can there be found on the surface of the world anything of this original planetary crust. It has all been mixed up too many times with extruding lavas of deep origins and admixed with subsequent deposits of the early world-wide ocean.
But the area I am referring to is the Columbia River Basalt Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_ ... salt_Group which geologists estimate to have been in the Miocene Epoch in the Cenozoic Era, long after the Jurasssic Period.
60:2.14 (688.6) One hundred million years ago the reptilian age was drawing to a close. The dinosaurs, for all their enormous mass, were all but brainless animals, lacking the intelligence to provide sufficient food to nourish such enormous bodies. And so did these sluggish land reptiles perish in ever-increasing numbers. Henceforth, evolution will follow the growth of brains, not physical bulk, and the development of brains will characterize each succeeding epoch of animal evolution and planetary progress.
I am not a geologist, far from it, I am merely curious, and typing this post as I research. But the first link piqued my interest and led me to study a little deeper. Knowing there are several members of this forum who have deeper knowledge of geology and the Papers I wanted to know if anyone would care to share their knowledge here. As always, thanks!
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