{"id":128259,"date":"2015-10-08T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/asteroid-season-volcano-season-asteroid-season-volcano-season.html"},"modified":"2015-11-10T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:27:20","slug":"asteroid-season-volcano-season-asteroid-season-volcano-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/asteroid-season-volcano-season-asteroid-season-volcano-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Season! Volcano Season! Asteroid Season! Volcano Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not a good time to be a dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;As Richards points out, there&rsquo;s always going to be an element of mystery when studying Earth&rsquo;s distant past. Not only did the KT extinction happen a long time ago, the events that triggered it hardly fit into our paradigm of natural disasters. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never experienced a magnitude 11 earthquake, or single lava flows that travel 600 kilometers&mdash;the distance from Salt Lake City to San Francisco,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All of these events are things that are so far out of our normal experience that we have to be very open minded as to what might have happened.&rdquo;&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/what-killed-the-dinosaurs-was-more-devastating-than-an-1733831989'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zFRPQJAVfyyFDllL_Dj1mbf8MUaX_TJDj1kS8MjEWlB2TIoFqeV_XkNQBUuUYCOib7YF-YZaalv8pdjzG5HBec3KfwbXWk-HUpzo0jaUHXbhpkb0fZ7gjm3yxX2Z8VQW9Z87RQCM-btxESQzFGZbXuZItZFwU9dekSjYOyeQpCJ9pgvOQPHPTrEOBGHOc0qlyybQiLSG1Q=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/what-killed-the-dinosaurs-was-more-devastating-than-an-1733831989'>What Killed the Dinosaurs Was More Devastating Than an Asteroid<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFor nearly 40 years, paleontologists have argued over what really killed the dinosaurs. Was it an massive asteroid impact, or a spate of volcanic eruptions? Or what if a powerful impact ignited volcanoes, walloping Earth&rsquo;s biosphere with a deadly 1-2 punch?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eVtLzxLfAGL'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not a good time to be a dinosaur. &#39;As Richards points out, there&rsquo;s always going to be an element of mystery when studying Earth&rsquo;s distant past. Not only did the KT extinction happen a long time ago, the events that triggered it hardly fit into our paradigm of natural disasters. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never experienced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/asteroid-season-volcano-season-asteroid-season-volcano-season.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asteroid Season! Volcano Season! Asteroid Season! 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