W: I think you would enjoy my geology class this morning.
M: Don’t bet on it, I’ve never cared much about rocks.
W: But you do care about dinosaurs, I recall. And today we discussed the geological evidence about what may have killed off the dinosaurs, at least here in North America.
M: Oh, sure, they got a hit by a comet or something, I think.
W: Well, Yeah, about 60 million years ago, a huge comet did crash into earth down in New Mexico and plowed out an enormous crater over a hundred miles across.
M: and that’s why the death of the dinosaurs, right?
W: Well, it wasn’t exactly the impact itself but what happened right afterward. You see researchers figured out from the shape of the crater that the comet must be coming in pretty low across the Atlantic and so right after to the impact, a huge cloud of fire razor(?) must sweep clear across the north America, all in just a few minutes. And that’s what probably killed off not just the dinosaurs but a lot of different species of plants and animals.
M: Amazing!
W: Yeah! And even 2000 miles in the impact, plants would be burst into flame.
M: And the fire that intense must destroy just about everything!
W: Well, above ground anyway!
M: Above ground? Say! I wonder it better explains why the dinosaurs all disappeared but some other animals, like maybe small mammals, living underground manage to survive.
W: Make sense! Anyhow! Latter on tons of dust that was thrown away out into the atmosphere may have caused some global climate change. So eventually the comet probably affected plant and animal species all around the world but nowhere as much as in North America.
這篇是在說恐龍的滅絕原因不是因為被彗星撞擊....而且被撞擊之後的影響..
從隕石坑的形狀來判斷, 慧星必定很接近亞特蘭大..所以在撞擊之後..
後面那句英文我就看不懂了..文稿好像也有點怪怪的..請大家幫我看看..
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