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Meta Research Bulletin ©2006
The following documented geological events at the
terrestrial K/T boundary at 65 Mya can easily be associated with a planetary
explosion event, most likely the explosion of hypothetical “Planet V” near the
present-day orbit of Mars. See artist’s concept in Figure
10.
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two boundary layers (ash and clay) of global extent
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16 known major impact craters across the globe associated with that epoch
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“hot zones” of radioactivity found in
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the Deccan Traps in
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changes in atmospheric and ocean composition
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a single global fire
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the extinction of 70% of all terrestrial species
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the absence of corresponding layers in the Antarctic
This last point might
need some clarification. If an event occurs at a great distance from the Earth,
it would potentially affect just one hemisphere of the Earth if it is a sudden,
impulse-like phenomenon. But if it lasts for more than 12 hours, as would occur
for the spread in arrival times of a blast wave from a distant planet
explosion, then the Earth would rotate on its axis, exposing most parts of the
planet to the event. However, because of the tilt of the Earth’s axis to the
mean plane of the planets, one polar region of Earth is likely to remain
continuously hidden from such an event unless its duration continued over many
months. For the K/T boundary event, apparently one of Earth’s polar regions was
shielded. This emphasizes the likelihood that the event was of distant origin
and global extent, rather than terrestrial origin and concentrated mainly in
one area (as for a single major impact such as the Chicxulub crater formation
in the
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