[meteorite-list] Mammoth Stew
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Mon Dec 17 02:15:41 EST 2007
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:58:39 -0800, you wrote:
>Well, mass extinctions should give us something of a clue even if we
>can't find traces of an impact, but if I'm not mistaken, the mass
>die-outs occurred several thousand years after the dust layer was laid
>down, no?
The mass extinctions of giant fauna came at differing times at different places.
Times that seem to-- huh, look at that-- coincide with times of first
infestations with humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction_event
Oh, and here's a new theory:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/16/scimammoth11.xml
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