Millennial Musings - Fire from the Sky; 1997
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0228
- Title
- Millennial Musings - Fire from the Sky; 1997
- Description
- George H. Lenz's lecture from March 13, 1997, titled "Millennial Musings-Fire from the Sky," explores the scientific and cultural fascination with meteors and their impact on Earth, alongside societal attitudes towards apocalyptic events. Lenz discusses how recent decades have seen a shift in scientific understanding to accept that catastrophic events, like meteor impacts, have significantly shaped life's evolution on Earth. He references historical mass extinctions and the role of sudden, catastrophic events contrary to the slow, gradual changes posited by Darwinian evolution. The lecture touches on the discovery of the K/T boundary, evidence of a massive meteor impact 65 million years ago, and its global effects, including mass extinctions.
- Date
- 13 March 1997
- Creator
- Lenz, George H.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- George H. Lenz
- Lenz
- 1997
- meteors
- catastrophic events
- Darwinian evolution
- K/T boundary
- mass extinctions
- societal attitudes
- apocalyptic events
- scientific consensus
- meteor impacts
- metors
- stratigraphic record
- Plate Tectonics
- Alvarez hypothesis
- Chicxulub crater
- impact craters
- Tunguska event
- Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
- Earth Crossing Asteroids (ECAs)
- Monte-Carlo scenarios.
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- George H. Lenz