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The Dinosaur Heritage
Environment and Extinction

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Discussion and extracts of Who Lies Sleeping? The Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man by Dr Michael D Magee.

Do meteorites look like civilization from the perspective of sediment geochemistry?

Mark McHarvey is aiming to do research in this field and has prepared a research proposal, the abstract of which follows. He has given us permission to post his paper on this website, without the illustrations, and anyone interested can download a zipped Word DOC file of it.

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Comparisons can been made between anthropogenic inputs to modern sediments, and geochemical anomalies observed in sediments for past mass extinctions. This paper compiles data from publications on the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary and compares the ancient geochemical signals to modern anthropogenic contamination in recent sediments. Above background concentrations in both industrial age and K/T boundary sediments are noted for Ir, Os, Cr, Ni, As, Zn, soot, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), shocked quartz and tektites. In addition, 13-Carbon depletion is noted for both modern and K/T boundary surface plankton populations. An examination of the Woodside Creek K/T boundary section for the presence of spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP), a well known pollution tracer, was undertaken, and no SCP detected. Owing to the limited nature of this study, the comparisons made here are necessarily of a qualitative nature. As such, any of the similarities noted between the modern and KT boundary geochemical record lack relevance when considered in isolation. However, taken together, they make an interesting case for further comparison between these two extinction events.

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In 1858, an apparition of the Virgin Mary manifested to an asthmatic teenager in Lourdes, France. Carl Sagan explains that the Mother of God did not say anything useful like explaining the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, but confirmed Pope Pius IX was right to proclaim the dogma of her immaculate conception four years earlier. A hundred million people have been to Lourdes since in the hope of being cured, often of incurable illnesses that they have subsequently died of. The Catholic Church rejected nearly all miraculous cures claimed there, accepting less than a hundred in a century and a half. You are as likely be miraculously cured at Lourdes as you are to win the lottery, about one in a million. Cured women outnumber men ten to one, which seems unmerciful to men.
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