Word: trapsing
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What could have caused such indiscriminate carnage? Marauding comets, exploding stars, greenhouse warming, ice-age cooling, sea-level drops, sea-level rises, ocean stagnation, oxygen depletion--every calamity imaginable has been invoked to explain the Permian extinction. But none of these agents of doom, argues geologist Paul Renne, director of...
According to Renne, these traps (from trappa, the Swedish word for stairs) are composed mainly of glassy basalt, laid down by huge rivers of flowing lava. But amid the basalt, which extends across an area of a million square miles, scientists have also found telltale pieces of tuff, a type...
A significant factor in the increase in bombings is that the dissemination of bomb know-how has become a minor industry. The past few decades have produced the rise of mail-order publishing companies that serve the so-called gun aftermarket, including the gun fanciers, survivalists, wannabe cops and closet...
"[Early in the game] we got a lot offense out of our defense--our traps seemed to get some easy baskets," junior forward Mike Gilmore said. "But Hartford crept back into it by halftime."
Is there evidence of ancient volcanic activity at the antipode of Chicxulub? Early speculation centered on the Deccan Traps, a basaltic plateau covering much of India that was formed over a few million years roughly around the time of the impact. But scientists have virtually eliminated that possibility. Taking continental...