Too Many Meteor Strikes in 6k Years

I just finished that link...I wouldn't have guessed that evidence of meteor induced, tsunami caused strata was possible. Thanks ABB

The link about the Alamo breccia seemed pretty clear cut to me. Its interpretation of visual, physical information indicate an impact and successively thinner rings of outlying material probably formed by wave action. As the Bible has little to say about extraterestrial impacts, I'll go with the scientists here.You bought that freshman geology text yet?ABB

Most of your criticism of incomplete information from science is due expecting a large amount of detail from an article meant to generally educate the public. CBS is not a scientific journal.The info is there if you look for it. You bought that freshman geology text yet?ABB

Iridium is found at the kt boundary across the planet at 100 plus sites. This layer is dated at about 62 mya by that pesky geologic column/timetable that you just can't wish away.The info on the Permian event is less well known, but at the 250 mya level several chemicals that are distinctive to impacts are present (just worked thru those pdf files about fullerenes and metal ratios).Again the key to understanding this comes with a basic geological education which you so willingly lack.Buy that book and work on tectonic movement, the rock cycle, and the geologic column. Eighteen year olds routinely understand these concepts, why can't you?ABB

Your local college bookstore will sell freshman geology texts.Mine is a fourth edition of 'Putman's Geology' by Larson and Birkeland. It is from 1982 and somewhat out of date, but covers the basics. The bookstore will have the more current copy or something comparable.The book "The Map that Changed the World" is about Bill 'Strata' Smith and how he came to conclude great ages. I'm waiting for the copy in our local library to come back in.And if Bill Birkeland reads this post perhaps he can tell us if he is related to Peter W. Birkeland who wrote my college text.ABBedit spellingThis message has been edited by Arkansas Banana Boy, 05-27-2005 01:40 AM

Its a 1000 degrees if all the heat went to the atmosphere. The fossil record indicates that life always come back after catastrophes. I suspect that protected areas (caves, deep sea rifts, or others) far from the impact area provided the retreat from which life resprung.Some life called extremophiles can live in very harsh areas, so life is probably more resistant to these shocks than you think. But if all those impacts happened in that short period that you think massive tectonic movement also occurred, then I might agree that life couldn't survive. Great ages provides time for heat to dissipate, as major impacts happen millions of years apart as opposed to every day for a year or so, when crustal plates are running around the world and large mountains are springing up from flat land. That scenario makes no sense from a physical or geological POV.ABB

The point is that the atmosphere would not be that hot ( not all heat goes into the atmosphere ). The dynamic is like most any large explosion... the immediate area would be very hot(over that 1000 degree mark). Outside the fireball air temperatures would dissipate quickly as distance from the impact increases. On the other side of the world a change of temp might be hard to detect. I recall some site that suggested that a major imact might affect the climate by increasing global temps by 10 degrees C. You are fixating on that 1000 degree figure and strawmanning it like you did with the 'photo'.

Since 95% of species died at the Permian, I suspect most of the higher forms of life died out with most all the rest. The simple, more resistant forms evolved to form life as we know it now.Noah could have lived thru it. So what. If it was a big one he better have a bunch of canned goods as growing food might be hard with all that darkness and total saltwater inundation of all arable land.