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Post by 1dave on Nov 15, 2018 16:41:03 GMT -5
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Post by grumpybill on Nov 15, 2018 16:57:36 GMT -5
If the estimated dating is correct, this could be the "missing" impact that likely brought on the Younger Dryas (temporary return of the last ice age), which lead to mass extinctions.
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Post by vegasjames on Nov 15, 2018 18:43:58 GMT -5
There was a very large iron meteorite found in Greenland. The Cape York meteorite.
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Post by fernwood on Nov 16, 2018 5:58:23 GMT -5
Very interesting.
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 16, 2018 13:39:47 GMT -5
If the estimated dating is correct, this could be the "missing" impact that likely brought on the Younger Dryas (temporary return of the last ice age), which lead to mass extinctions. I've always strongly questioned the "consensus" that early humans were responsible for the mass extinctions of the megafauna. Small bands of primitives could kill and eat only a fraction of the large animals that went extinct. I agree this could be the "missing" extinction impact. But one must ask why humans were spared. Maybe they were able to survive by hunting the smaller animals that did not go extinct. I've read that most of the smaller animals like deer survived whatever killed off the mastadons etc. I've always suspected that the impact destroyed the major food resources needed by the big animals while smaller creatures were able to forage on what remained.
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Post by grumpybill on Nov 16, 2018 16:02:34 GMT -5
I fully agree, gemfeller . But I also think there could have been pathogens involved. Possibly a mix of several factors, which may or may not have included overhunting by humans.
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