Did a Meteor Impact in India Kill the Dinosaurs?
Did a Meteor Impact in India Kill the Dinosaurs? Friday October 16, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) One of the odd things about geology is that the more massive the astronomical impact, the harder it can be to detect the resulting crater, especially after tens of millions of years of natural erosion have helped erase the evidence. Such appears to be the case with the gigantic Shiva Crater off India’s western continental shelf, which a Texas Tech researcher says may have been created 65 million years ago by a truly enormous meteor–one about 40 miles wide, rather than the 5-mile-wide weakling that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous period (and which is currently the main suspect in the planet-wide K/T Extinction). Of course, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evid
