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...more, the restless tectonic plates spawn volcanic eruptions, which spew carbon dioxide into the air. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide results in a greenhouse effect, which traps the sun's energy, causing temperatures on land and in the sea to rise markedly. Conversely, crustal movement may allow frigid ocean currents from the poles to invade tropical waters, leading to a worldwide drop in temperatures. Those species that cannot adapt to the earth's erratic behavior simply succumb. To many paleontologists, as well as geologists, it seemed to make sense...
Nonetheless, the evidence in favor of an impact was rapidly accumulating. Other geologists uncovered similar iridium deposits just above Cretaceous rock beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and under the Raton basin in northeastern New Mexico. Additional analysis showed that the samples contained ratios of gold and platinum nearly identical to those found in meteorites. Furthermore, other sediment layers containing abnormally high amounts of iridium were discovered under both the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; these layers were deposited around the time of a smaller mass extinction that occurred more than 30 million years...
People played bridge on the patio furniture, and in the mornings Fran Markham used to conduct an exercise class. The view looked down the channel to the Atlantic Ocean and across to Boot Key, a tangled thicket of low-lying mangrove. The harbor is one of the few protected anchorages on the ocean side of the Florida Keys; it has been a major stop for anyone cruising to the Bahamas...
...move up there to the mountains. They say we are baboons. Even though we are the higher level of baboons, we still must be up there with the others." She paused with a friendly smile, and gestured with her clippers across the green-gray sugar fields toward the ocean. "This is the place of our ancestors. Our King Shaka is buried over that side. How would the British like it if they had to move from the place where King George is buried...
...Imagine ocean waves engulfing the topmost girders of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...