The Dinosaur Heritage
Environment and Extinction
Contents Updated: Monday, May 15, 2000
Contents
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UFO Mag Review of Who Lies Sleeping? Order
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What will People See of Us? (4KB) - Dinosaurs Cold Blooded? (7KB)
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Time’s Secrets (8KB) - Dinosaurs Cold Blooded? (9KB) -
The End of Earth’s Summer (4KB) -
Miscellany (9KB)
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Experts and Iconoclasts (8KB) -
Two Pillars of Stratigraphy (7KB) -
The Real Experts? (12KB) -
The Real Experts in Genetics? (6KB) -
All or Nothing at All (10KB) -
The Right to be Unorthodox (12KB) -
Experts and Funding Research (13KB)
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Just big lizards! (10KB) -
Built for Speed (10KB) -
Warm bloodedness in Dinosaurs (9KB) -
Warm Bloodedness (7KB) -
Arguments Against Warm Bloodedness (14KB) -
The Emergence of Warm Bloodedness (8KB) -
Cold Blooded Qualities (4KB) -
Dinosaurs Victorious! (7KB) -
Occam’s Razor (15KB) -
Dinosaurs as Birds (16KB) -
Archaeopteryx (6KB) -
Fossil Forgery? (8KB)
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Primates (6KB) -
A Thinking Mammal (9KB) -
Herpes (6KB) -
Homo and Australopithecines (11KB) -
Australopithecus Afarensis (5KB) -
The Scarcity of Human Remains (8KB) -
Characteristics of Humanity (30KB)
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Characteristics of Intelligent Dinosaurs (17KB) -
Parental Care (17KB) -
Possible Intelligent Dinosaurs (3KB) -
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? (16KB)
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Converging on a solution (28KB) -
Forces of Evolution (10KB) -
Submergence Convergence: The Aquatic Ape (38KB)
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Genes and Explosive Evolution (7KB) -
Sexual Selection (13KB) -
Macrosevolution (13KB) -
Purposeful Evolution (13KB) -
The Speed of Evolution (8KB)
Bacteria Take the Chance out of Evolution (13KB)
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Anthroposaurus Sapiens (27KB)
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Oddities in the Rocks (31KB)
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How are the Mighty Fallen? (7KB) -
Excess Oxygen (13KB) -
Low Temperature (11KB) -
Asteroid (21KB)
Asteroidal Bombardment (7KB)
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Lessons in Extinction (10KB) -
Rates of Extinction (6KB) -
Pollution and Entropy (15KB) -
Greenhouse Effect (8KB) -
Adaptations to Pollution (6KB) -
Nuclear War (18KB) -
Hubris? (7KB) -
The Decay of A City (12KB)
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The Dinosaur Heritage (12KB) -
The Syndrome (27KB)
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Who Lies Sleeping? (16KB) -
In the Beginning of the Dinosaurs (18KB)
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Miscellany (47KB)
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Relevant Links
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.
Abstract
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.
Quotations from WLS
Read the quotes if you don’t want to read the book. A few others are thrown in for added interest:
The Oldie magazine August 1996
Alien Magazine, Summer Special Issue 1997
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