From R. N. H. Whitehouse
Isle of Mull, Argyll
In his comments on The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, Bob
White hedges his bets by suspecting that meteorite and volcanic activity both
played their part in the demise of the large dinosaurs (Review, 10 August, p
42). If two rare events of such massive proportions occurred “at exactly the
same time”, as he says, might they not be connected?
At the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, were the Mexican crater and
what was then the island of India in antipodal positions to each other? If so,
could the seismic disturbance from the meteorite impact have been sufficient, on
arrival at the opposite side of the world, to trigger the eruptions that
resulted in the Deccan Traps?
