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- Asteroids and Oil and Dinosaurs
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zogger Wed, 07 May 2008 20:24:35 PDT Science
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Well, pre oil like hydrocarbon deposits. A new paper is making the claim that the asteroid strike that caused Chicxulub Crater that lead to a massive dinosaur extinction event was a lucky shot, in that it apparently hit a rich deposit of this pre oil hydrocarbon matter. The clue was all over the world they found evidence of a layer of carbon cenospheres, which have previously been only associated with modern industrial activity.
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.."The scientists also found that the farther the sample site was from the Chicxulub Crater, the smaller the cenospheres tended to be. That observation is consistent with the expectation that particles were produced by the asteroid impact, since once the particles are ejected, heavier particles should fall back to Earth sooner (and travel shorter distances) than lighter particles."
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- Asteroids and Oil and Dinosaurs
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The Baron Thu, 08 May 2008 11:56:54 PDT
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"they form during the intense combustion of coal and crude oil. Equally baffling, there were no power plants burning coal or crude oil 65 million years ago,"
Maybe this is instead our first evidence that Dinosaurs had semi-advanced technology? As much factual basis as assuming the asteroid "got lucky".
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