Volcanogenic Dark Matter and Mass Extinctions

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1996-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612214v1

Astropart.Phys.8:317-320,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages in Latex file

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0927-6505(97)00051-0

The passage of the Earth through dense clumps of dark matter, the presence of which are predicted by certain cosmologies, would produce large quantities of heat in the interior of this planet through the capture and subsequent annihilation of dark matter particles. This heat can cause large-scale volcanism which could in turn have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and other mass extinctions. The periodicity of such volcanic outbursts agrees with the frequency of palaeontological mass extinctions as well as the observed periodicity in the occurrence of the largest flood basalt provinces on the globe.

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