What did *really* cause the extinction of the Dinosaurs?
Everytime I saw, heard or read an article about the extinction of the Dinosaurs in the media, an impact of an asteroid or comet in the mexican peninsula Yucatan 65 million years ago was said to be the most likely reason.
With respect to Yucatan`s size I could not really believe that an impact there could have been the reason for the worldwide extinction of the Dinosaurs.
Now my attention was caught and I started to gather further information on this on the web.
In the course of my "investigations" I recognized that even the scientists had different opinions on this and some stated that the impact, that *really* caused the mass extinction, still remains to be found.
Furthermore I noticed contradicting statements regarding the height of the sealevel at that time.
Here one of many examples I found on the web:
Quote from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dino_trans.shtml
:
...
NARRATOR:
The hills of north east Mexico are full of evidence of a mass murder, sixty five million years ago.
It's a crime that for over a decade, scientists thought they had already solved. But then, a geology professor from Princeton discovered something that wasn't supposed to be there.
...
JAN SMIT: What you see here, here is the spherule layer and if we go way up there you see the layers which we know are rich
in Iridium and normally those two are together but now we see here, in between, huge masses of sand sandstone and the
question was how did it get here?
NARRATOR: Sand is normally found only on the coast,
but sixty five million years ago this whole region was under deep ocean
. The sandstone should not have been here. According to Smit, it could only be evidence of another disaster caused by the
asteroid.
JAN SMIT: And there must have been a lot of energy in the ocean here to bring all this sand down here and to me it was very
obvious, very clear that this must have been a
huge Tsunami wave
.
...
DAVID ARCHIBALD: Amphibians like all cold blooded creatures have problems dealing with sudden drops in temperature, especially
if it lasts for many months or years. If this had happened at the end of the Cretaceous, then many cold blooded organisms
should have become extinct... they did not. This tells us that there could not have been a long term drop in temperature.
NARRATOR: So the dinosaurs did not freeze to death... nor did they roast and nor did they die from the effects of acid rain.
There seemed to be so many holes in the impact theory, scientists began to dust down a more classical, evolutionary idea.
Maybe the dinosaurs had died out gradually and for completely different reasons. Many scientists believe that about ten
million years before the KT boundary, the dinosaurs' environment began to get markedly worse. The lush coastal planes on which
they depended began to turn arid,
as sea levels fell dramatically
. Their natural habitat was disappearing.
...
End of Quote
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What I don`t fully understand there is:
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How can
"this whole region"
have been
"under deep ocean sixty five million years ago"
, if "many scientists believe that
about ten million years before the KT boundary
, the dinosaurs' environment began to get markedly worse. The lush coastal planes on which they depended began to turn arid,
as sea levels fell dramatically
" and not far away
"The hills of north east Mexico are full of evidence of a mass murder, sixty five million years ago"
(assuming the
"evidence of a mass murder"
is referring to the findings of fossils of *land based* dinosaurs)?
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And how can furthermore an impact *
on dry land
* (that`s my conclusion from the contradictions above and from
this map
) cause an *
huge Tsunami wave
*?
I mean - I don`t want to say that there was no Tsunami at all - but I doubt it came from the Chixulub impact.
At least everything I read about this did *NOT* convince me, that the impact site really "
was under deep ocean
" when it happened.
Maybe the Chixulub crater was covered with mud and sediments from an Tsunami caused by annother impact. This would also
fit nicely in GERTA KELLER`s and WOLFGANG STINNESBECK`s theorie, that the Chixulub impact happened 300.000 years before the
destinction of the dinos.
But where could this Tsunami have come from, if the Chixulub impact was *NOT* the reason? What else could have caused it?
Can the explanation be found
here
?
To me it looks from this
Europe map
, as if once there had been a
peninsula
, reaching from Norway nearly over to Greenland and as if this peninsula has nearly been blown away completely by an really deep impact. With "really deep" I mean that the "missile" appearently penetrated the Earth`s crust and detonated below it.
By that massive pieces of the crust must have been blown out.One of them fell back into what was the Atlantic
Ocean at that time with its downside up and caused the *huge Tsunami wave*. Today the remaining parts above the sea level are known as the
Faroer Islands
.
Without the blown-away crust the ground of the crater caused by this impact must have been a huge
sea of liquid magma
- approximately the size of Germany. As the impact widely blew away the stall coastline of that prehistoric peninsula, the
way was free for the water masses of the ancient Atlantic Ocean to pour all of a sudden into the
crater
- right onto that sea of liquid magma. This map clearly shows structures on the seafloor pointing towards the crater as if
caused by
streaming water
.
Anyone who ever watched a drop of water on a boiling hot cooking plate may imagine what happened then!
Unimaginable masses of water must have been vapourized explosion-like - and I`m afraid the atmosphere was filled with steam
quiete quickly (like a worldwide hot fog), preventing the sunlight from reaching the plants and them from growing - worldwide.
First I thought that *THIS* event could have wiped out the dinos - rather than the
Chixulub impact
, whose crater obviously is much smaller.
But when I sat back a bit and looked at the map from a bigger distance, my attention was drawn upon the
Hungary area
and the
highland of Anatolia
in Turkey.
On the Hungary scan it looks to me as if the eastern end of the Alps massive has been
wiped out
with a huge rubber somehow - just leaving traces of it`s former basic structures.
The same impression I got from looking
at the
Turkey scan
- Cyprus could be a blown-out piece of that wiped-out part of the massive, beside some smaller parts between Creta and the turkish coast.
I suspected that these spots could also possibly be ancient craters, already was growing. However, I suddenly realized that they all lay on a
virtual curve
and indeed could very well have originated from an event like the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter a few years ago.
Also the just recently discovered
" Silverpit Crater "
in the North Sea could be the result of this event, as it is situated very close to this virtual curve. Furthermore it was
said on the web that it is approximately 65 million years old and could so could even serve as a kind of evidence for my
theory.
Now the scenario I see is that this must have been one of the worst days this planet has ever seen:
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The first part of a broken meteor/asteroid hit the Anatolia area,
forming the highland
.
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Some time later - after the earth had turned on a few degrees - a second part hit somewhere in Hungary (
forming the Carpaths
) and
-
possibly shortly after that - earth had turned on a little bit again - a third part hit the Czech area (
forming Böhmerwald, Erzgebirge and the SudetenCzech area
). Maybe another impact happened between the first one in Anatolia and the one I called the second one - at least the area does look tempting on the map.
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The last and from my point of view most devasting impact happened - as described above - maybe one hour later in the middle of the
peninsula
located in front of Norway.
If the comparison to the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter applies here, the North Pole must have been located somewhere in
Sibiria in those days, according to the virtual curve on which all locations are situated.
This correlates with what I learned at school, that the North Pole once was situated somewhere in Sibiria.
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And all these hypothetical events *TOGETHER* could very well have meant the end of the dinos (a few hours that changed the
world forever).
Disclaimer:
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My theory is not based in any way on any kind of scientific research - it`s just based on my interpretation of what I saw on
Berran`s Europe map and North America map.
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As I don`t know anything about the making of these maps, I can`t tell how precise the 3d structures are which led me to my idea.
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I seem to see where the shoreline was (what height the sealevel approximately had) when the Norwegian peninsula was impacted,
and I would assume an similar high level for the time 300.000 years earlier (but I might be wrong here), when according to
GERTA KELLER`s and WOLFGANG STINNESBECK`s theorie the Cixulub impact happened, but what I clearly can *NOT* say
from looking at the maps is *WHEN* these structures have been formed, if they fit in the time frame at all.
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But amazingly my interpretation of all the things I read *from those maps* neatly fits into GERTA KELLER`s and WOLFGANG
STINNESBECK`s theory, so it could be "new ammunition" in the "war between the scientists" on that theme, provided someone
can come up with some evidence for my theory.
But I`m afraid I have to leave *that* to the scientists...
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I`m just an system administrator and application programmer - I simply don`t have the spare time or the money to travel to all
those locations, drill holes, examine the cores and so on...
Impressum
