Chicxulub crater

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    Five crafts tilt to vertical and circle up with their bellies facing the circle center, they're Cat-1, 4, 5, 6 and 10. They just have a few feet apart between their wings but they're keeping their high speed. You could see from top-view the craft noses evenly spread 72 degrees apart, each craft's left wing goes under the next craft's right wing to overlap each other forming a cover. Their aim is to block the satellites and the coming twenty five US spaceships' visions, even the telescope can't observe

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    Introduction Access to quality care can mean everything to healthy living for individuals in a community. Veterans living in rural areas are no exception and in particular make up an extraordinary demographic that often have specialized mental and health care needs due to various war traumas. (Rural Health, 2016) states that “there are 22 million Veterans nationwide, with 5.3 million who live in rural communities.” (Rural Health, 2016) continues that “fifty-seven percent of these rural Veterans

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    Logging In Crater Lake

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    Currently, the Crater Lake region faces logging projects such as the Bybee logging project; this project proposes to clear-cut 1,300 acres of old-growth forest right up to the boundary of Crater Lake National Park (Protect Crater Lake). It would also include create 12 miles of new roads within the forest. This creates quite a controversy between the logging companies and

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    is the Mono Basin. The Mono Basin consists of landforms such as the Mono-Inyo Craters, Black Point, Negit Island, Paoha Island, Mono Lake, Devils Punch Bowl, Panum Crater, and some others (Hamburger et al; 2004). All of these landforms were created by volcanism. Actually, the Mono Basin is in one of the most volcanically active places in the world (Forest Service; 2004). Paoha Island, Negit Island, and Panum Crater are the most recent volcanoes to erupt, which are the furthest north in the basin

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    Chicxulub Impact By Talullah Lennon The Cause: An Asteroid is formed in the inner solar system in a particular part called the Asteroid Belt, when small particles of rock and metal collide with each other, and slowly build up over time. Planets are formed the same way as asteroids, but what stops asteroids from growing and becoming a planet is due to the gravitationally pull of Jupiter. The asteroid belt lies between Jupiter and mars. Because of Jupiter's gravitationally pull the asteroid goes at

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    (K-Pg boundary) was host to one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. Evidence suggests it was the result of a large asteroid impact approximately 65.5 million years ago in Chicxulub, Mexico; hence why the crater it formed was named the Chicxulub crater. The crater was approximately 180 kilometres in diameter and was believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs amongst many other life forms including marine plankton (calcareous nannofossils and planktonic

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    proposed in 1980 by a physicist named Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez who was a geologist. the theory is that an asteroid 4-9 miles (6-15 km) in diameter hit the Earth about 65 million years ago, creating the Chicxulub crater at the tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The crater is more than 110 miles in diameter and 12 miles in depth. It is one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth; The impact would have penetrated the Earth's crust, scattering dust and debris into the atmosphere

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    globe. The asteroids that are suspected include the Chicxulub Meteor, impact crater in Chicxulub, Mexico, the Silverpit Meteor, impact crater in the Silver Pit area of the North Sea, near Great Britain, and the Boltysh Meteor, in the Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. All three of the meteors were dated around 66-62 million years of age; However the Boltysh Meteor is, according to scientists, dated up to two thousand years before the Chicxulub crater. The multiple impact theory states that more than one

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    The time frame that makes up the Cretaceous-Tertiary period is an area in which causes much controversy and mystery among people. Although research shows us that there was a rapid change in Earth’s climate during this era, there are many different theories that seem to show other sides of the story. During this time there was a global climate change from warm Mesozoic to a cooler Cenozoic (Fluteau, 2014). Although research tells us that there was a substantial change in Earth's climate during this

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    Chicxulub by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a man and woman’s daughter in a town. The man compares losing his daughter to meteors hitting him and the impact it can affect him. When he then finds out his daughter is in a car accident. A lesson the story suggest is to don’t expect the worst in things. In the beginning, the man describes that his daughter shouldn’t be out his late alone. “My daughter is walking along the roadside late at night-- too late, really, for a seventeen-year-old

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