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Come on people. Just look at a map of Canada. It's there. It has a diameter of  (what?) 100 miles. It is the kind of "round" that doesn't happen in nature. Half way up the east side of Hudson Bay. You can't miss it. What is it?
   Art
>
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 2003/07/05 Sat AM 10:56:53 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: extrinctions
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> Dear et all;-
>   Half way up the East side of Hudson Bay, around the Belcher Islands, is this two-thirds round singularity. Now, it seems to me that this could only have occured due to meteoric impact or massive volcanic explosion.
>   If it's ever been mentioned in eather context---I missed it.
>   Inquiring minds want to know!
>      Question Man
> >
> > From: lindawbush <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 2003/07/05 Sat AM 09:47:02 EDT
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: extrinctions
> >
> > Hello, sleepy CONCH-L!
> >
> > (You stayed up late for the 4th festivities.)  In addition
> > to extinctions due to meteorite impact, I saw an excellent
> > program on mass extinction in North America due to the
> > explosion of a "super volcano."  I do not remember where
> > in geological time this occured.
> >
> > The most interesting thing is that satellite examination
> > of the Yellowstone area shows that the whole park is
> > underlaid by magma, and that this was a "super volcano"
> > that still contains the potential for an eruption that
> > would make the Mount St. Helens eruption look like a
> > sparkler compared to the fireworks most of us witnessed
> > last night.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the report contained details on the
> > extinction of large vertebrates, and nohing on
> > invertebrates (which might have been fresh water and land
> > forms).
> >
> > Very interesting information at the least.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Linda
> >
>
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