When the Earth’s forests burned.
by Lewis, 17 February, 2019, 1 comments
Some sixty six million years ago, much of the Earth ‘caught fire’. A large asteroid smashed into the Earth (on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico). The force of the impact has been estimated to have been a billion times greater than the force of the atomic bombs deployed at the end of WW2. The impact of the asteroid and its effects were devastating, resulting in catastrophe on a global scale. The event has been mainly associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs. Immediate to the impact, rocks and material was ejected high into the atmosphere - as this material fell back to earth, searing heat was generated and fires were ignited; indeed, intense forest fires were ignited certainly across the Americas. Read more...
