From: Elizabeth Kipp <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Comet set fire to Northern Hemisphere 13000 years ago?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:35:57 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <002501c79ba2$8c600a20$650fa8c0@Villandra2>
Obatanga is a Provincial Park in Northern Ontario which was burned over during a forest fire. We visited the park about two years later and the amount of growth was phenomenal. There were beautiful lady's slipper orchids covering the ground and small trees had already taken hold and the blackened stumps were fodder for the newly emerging forest. Nature can come back after a forest fire in amazing ways with respect to flora. I think that the Maxim "Nature will find a way" is probably true in terms of survival.
Dora Smith <> wrote:
To be sure, if a comet hit in North America it would have started widespread
fires, which would have had a disproportionate effect on life there.
In Europe large animals were already close to extinct, weren't they?
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: [DNA] Comet set fire to Northern Hemisphere 13000 years ago?
> In a message dated 5/20/2007 3:40:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
>> It sounds like you are limiting your thoughts to western hemisphere? Any
>> reason? The folks in Europe and Asia would have to deal with this too,
>> and
>> certainly at the moment our dna data is more detailed in Europe than it
>> is
>> in the Americas.
>
> No, but I was thinking the western hemisphere would be the simplest case
> to
> study, where you could generate a hypothesis about what you might expect
> to see
> in different regions. I'm not sure how I'd apply that to Europe. Do you
> have
> any thoughts along that line?
Elizabeth (Blake) Kipp, PLCGS
Guild of one-name studies #4600 - LAMBDEN, PINCOMBE and SIDERFIN
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