Randall Carlson

Correct.

Correct.

That's exactly right.

And that was what produced what are called the Deccan Traps in India.

And interestingly, at the time, if you look at a model of the Earth, the impact occurred and the antipode, which is the exact 180 in every direction degree around the opposite side of the Earth, was where the great pulse of basaltic lava occurred.

burst forth that now created the deck and traps.

Could there have been a connection there?

Maybe.

One of the ideas that has been proposed is that there was a massive pulse of energy, seismic energy, that radiated outward from the point of impact, circled the Earth, and then where it converged on the far side of the planet is pretty much right where the epicenter of the volcanism occurred that produced the deck and traps around the same time.

So it was probably a multi-event, a multi-factored event.

It would have been complex.

And a lot of the critics initially who were dismissive of it kind of, in my mind, had a much oversimplified model.

One big impact, and that was it.

And they weren't looking at feedbacks and discussions.

I think now we can say that the feedbacks could have lasted literally tens of thousands to up to hundreds of thousands of years.

All of the things you just said, um, in terms of, you know, the initial, uh, you know, there would have been enormous fires.

There would have been enormous tsunamis.

In fact, there have, you know, I, some of my growing up years was also in a small town, Louisiana, and I didn't know at the time, but I've learned since that there's a KT or Cretaceous tertiary layer, uh,

right under where I used to live for a while.

And it was caused by a massive tsunami moving to the North from that point of impact down by the, you can't, you could tell.