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Main point: Review and compare the 3 theories about dinosaurs extinction
Paragraph 1:
- until 1980s, most scientists believed that sea level drop could have caused the climate changes that resulted in dinosaurs extinctions as well as many ocean species extinctions
Paragraph 2:
- in 1980s, the discovery of iridium deposited in later of clay challenged the old theory because iridium is rare on Earth's surface but common in meteorites
- large meteorite -> change Earth's climate -> dinosaurs extinction
Paragraph 3:
- new theory: volcanic eruption
- volcanic eruption in India -> release of co2 -> climatic change -> dinosaurs extinction
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- volcanic eruption theory accounts for the presence of iridium in sediment and explains matters that meteorite theory doesn't
- lower regions of the mantle also contain iridium
- sea level drop was the result of a distortion in Earth's surface that was caused by movement of diapirs
- dinosaurs extinction was resulted from explosive volcanism that resulted from diapirs erupting onto Earth surface
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