Not really. Little islands of dinosaur survival are known to have existed for short geological times after the K/T impact. The "impact winter" that followed was not an instantaneous killer.
Ted On 1/15/11 10:12 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > guess that shoots down a lot of ideas about that K-T boundary event > that killed dinosaurs with fire storms and blast waves. On 2:34:16 pm > 01/15/11 "Paul H." <[email protected]> wrote: > A new paper about the > direct dating of dinosaur bones, > has been published online in advanced of > its publication > in âGeology.â It is: > > Fassett, J. E., L. M. Heaman, > and A. Simonetti, 2011, Direct > U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene > dinosaur bones, > San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Geology, first published > on > January 5, 2011, doi:10.1130/G31466.1 > > > http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2011/01/05/G31466.1.abstract > > http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/current > > Based on such dating, they > argue that within the area of what > is now New Mexico, dinosaurs survived the > K-P impact and > became extinct within the Paleogene. > > Yours, > > Paul > Heinrich > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives > at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-arc > hives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > _________________ > _____________________________ Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list > mailing > list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listi > nfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
