We learned just a few short weeks ago that the KT-Boundary Event was a result of a large asteroid striking Earth on the Yucantan Peninsula, known as Chicxulub. Well, apparently, paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University has other plans. The KT-Boundary Event, according to Chatterjee, was indeed the result of an asteroid impact, however, it hit in the Shiva area of India. But other scientists compare his argument to that of an asteroid: full of holes. Chatterjee does not have hard evidence that the Shiva area is even a crater. Though Chatterjee sites the high levels of shocked quartz and iridium, things typically found with asteroid impacts, others push these ideas aside saying the Chicxulub easily could have kicked up dirt, iridium, and the quartz way up in the atmosphere, depositing its contents on India.
I'm honestly sick of hearing about all these different theories as to what happened. Well, not completely, but this one especially irritates me. It's clear that Chatterjee hasn't done a whole lot of research because why would anyone try to denounce a theory that "95 percent or more of the earth scientists...are in agreement"? (Moskowitz 1). The article even explains that he didn't really have sufficient evidence.
Listen to me Chatterjee. I may not be some fancy shmancy geologist like you, but please, for the sake of not annoying me when I do my Weekly Post, do us all a favor and get some other opinions before you call Clara Moskowitz to write a science article. Thanks
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