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I think this map can mislead you to think that but if you look at the graphs from the reference they quote, there's not much in the last billion years or so tha
by pvg 3y ago
I think this map can mislead you to think that but if you look at the graphs from the reference they quote, there's not much in the last billion years or so that's close to Chicxulub, a known extinction-causing impact. It's a real outlier and it's reasonable to assume much smaller impacts did not cause mass extinctions by themselves. I've fished graphs out here and marked Chicxulub in the first one:
https://i.imgur.com/Rwk6W3j.png https://i.imgur.com/Rwk6W3j.png
https://i.imgur.com/ATZIK2r.png https://i.imgur.com/ATZIK2r.png