ALIEN INTERVIEW - THE NEW EARTH - Earth Changes and The ...

-- Reference: Article: Terminal Cretaceous Environmental Events
Charles B. Officer 1 and Charles L. Drake 2
1
Research professor in the Earth Sciences Department, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.
2
Professor in the Earth Sciences Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire 03755.
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"Atomic explosions cause atmospheric fallout much like that of volcanic
eruptions."
"Oct. 26, 2007 -- New evidence dug from the shores of the Bay of Bengal supports the
radical idea that it was a series of monumental volcanic eruptions that wiped out the
dinosaurs, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery confirms two important
things, said Keller: First, that the most massive Deccan eruption and the K-T mass extinction
happened at the same time. Second, that the later, final eruption is timed right to have
slowed the recovery of many living things. This latter matter of the slow recovery has long
been a mystery to paleontologists, she said."
-- Reference: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/26/dinosaur-volcano.html
"A new statistical study of mass extinctions throughout the history of life on Earth is backing
up the idea that no single meteor, volcanic eruption or other lone gunman is ever to blame,
even in the case of the Cretaceous-Tertiary event that brought the end of dinosaurs 65
million years ago.
Instead, the worst die-offs happen when some sort of interminable, multi-generational
pressure on life is combined with a few powerful blows. It's what is now being called the
press/pulse theory of mass extinctions.
The theory "is essentially a more eloquent way of saying what I and many other
paleontologists have been saying for many years," said Gerta Keller of Princeton University.
"Namely that the impact-kill hypothesis is all wrong. Impacts alone could not have been the
killing mechanism for the K-T or any of the other major mass extinctions."
In the late Cretaceous case massive volcanism — the Deccan Traps eruption in India — and
attendant climate change, coincided with an impact that pushed highly stressed biota over
the brink."
-- Reference: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/20/extinction_pla.html
134 "... Rwenzori Mountains..."
"The highest Rwenzoris are permanently snow-capped, and they, along with Mount
Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya are the only such in Africa. The Ruwenzoris are often
identified with the "Mountains of the Moon" mentioned by Ptolemy. The Ruwenzori are
known for their vegetation, ranging from tropical rainforest through alpine meadows to snow;
and for their animal population, including forest elephants, several primate species and
many endemic birds."
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