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In article <8NOV199619032604@hydra1.caltech.edu>, dbl@hydra1.caltech.edu
(Daniel Lang) wrote:

> In article <55tqh1$56k@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
kmc_mst6@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Karen M Cramer) writes...
> >MH Roberts (u5k24@cc.keele.ac.uk) wrote:
> >: Neil O'Hara wrote:
> >: > The object that struck earth and killed the dinosaurs was more likely a
> >: > comet, but could have been a meteor,...

> The other possibility is a massive episode of volcanic activity that
> formed the Deccan traps (in what is now India) ~65 million years ago.
> 
> Along the same lines, the formation of the Siberian traps may be responsible
> for the extinction episode at the end of Permian (the largest of the 
> extinction episodes).
> 
> Daniel Lang  dbl@hydra0.caltech.edu

      I like the idea that extinction ocurred before the comet or asteroid hit.
If you look at the size of the colonies in the Rockies and whrere they
died, you can see that other factors, including food availabiity could
have wiped out these herds.
      Can someone explain what the "traps" are in India and Siberia. Have
dino bones been found in the Western Desert of India?

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