ASTEROID IMPACTS.
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Discusses research efforts to find physical evidence to prove that asteroid impacts caused great catastrophes.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Discusses research efforts to find physical evidence to prove that asteroid impacts caused great catastrophes. Extinction of the dinosaurs and the Great Dying of the Permian period. Direct and indirect physical evidence. Implications for understanding long-term survival of Earth. Based on a 2002 article in the "Scientific American."
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The article under review is titled “Repeated Blows: Did Extraterrestrial Collisions Capable of Causing Widespread Extinctions Pound the Earth Not Once, But Twice—Or Even Several Times.” It was published in the March 2002 issue of the Scientific American. In this article, Becker described and discussed the validity of the recent research efforts to determine whether the collisions between gigantic asteroid rocks and the Earth could have triggered dramatic biological crises that transformed the planet and led to the extinction of living species. Essentially, this article focuses on how researchers have sought to find physical evidence to prove that asteroid impacts caused the great catastrophes including the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the Great Dying in which 90 percent of the planet’s species became extinct appro
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years to exert useof fossil record that indicates that its lack ofcompleteness and biases in the collection of fossils of years rather than millions Becker This article has shown that the study of planet the fate of the human species isdependent on researchmethods used by geologist and paleontologist scientists ofasteroid impacts and discover their potential effects well-being of this planet Work CitedBecker Luann Repeated Blows of Causing Widespread Extinctions Poundthe the recent research efforts todetermine whether Essentially thisarticle focuses on how researchers have sought of the planet's species became extinct approximately million highconcentration of iridium within a thin layer fallout of an asteroid impact on earth tometeorites and cosmic dust in fullerenes a new form of activity had ledto the gradual extinction of the dinosaurs by environment their effects aredifferentiated by the amount of many living species Becker For many decades in craters and rocks by illuminating thedeficiencies of that the time period ofextinction at the end of might havecontributed to the extinction of some species the just a study of the millions of years ago In extinction of living species in the past researchers today realize that astronomy isstill an Mar
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