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Anthony:
Don't worry about you guys (ichnologists) getting a reputation as
troublemakers. Ichnologists have already got a reputation as
troublemakers. It's way too late to start worrying about that sort of
thing now ;->
BTW here are some references that I have used in presenting aspects of the
K-T controversy to students. They are especially good at stimulating
discussion.
Benton, M. J., 1990, Scientific methodologies in collision: The history of
the study of the extinction of dinosaurs: Evolutionary Biology, v. 24, p.
371-400.
Clemens, E. S., 1986, Of asteroids and dinosaurs: The role of the press in
the shaping of scientific debate: Social Studies of Science, v. 16, p.
421-456.
Clemens, E. S., 1994, The impact hypothesis and popular science: Conditions
and consequences of interdisciplinary debate, in Glen, W., ed., The Mass
Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis: Stanford, Stanford
University Press, p. 92-120.
Feldmann, R. M., 1990, On impacts and extinction: biological solutions to
biological problems: Journal of Paleontology, v. 64, p. 151-154.
McDonald, K., 1992, New data suggesting an asteroid impact inflames debate
of dinosaur demise: Chronicle of Higher Education, v. Oct 28, p. A7-A9.
Williams, M. E., 1994, Catastrophic versus noncatastrophic extinction of
the dinosaurs: Testing, falsifiability, and the burden of proof: Journal of
Paleontology, v. 68, p. 183-190.
I also have an editorial by T. van Andel that makes some very interesting
points about the social dimensions of the K-T debate. It's evidently from
a column he writes for some Episodes-like journal. Unfortunately I only
have a photocopy. The columns' name is "Tjeerd van Andel's Unconformities"
and if anyone out there can give me the name of the journal in which it is
published I'd be much obliged.
Norm MacLeod
>> BTW, Thanks for your description of the outcrop debate in Poty Quarry. It
>sounded very reminiscent of a similar debate we had on the outcrop at
>Mimbral during the Snowbird III Field trip.
>
>You're welcome - I heard a little bit about the Snowbird field trip after I
>was in Recife and thought it sounded a little familiar to me, too. Were the
>ichnologists being the flies in the ointment there, too? Hopefully we won't
>get too much of a reputation as troublemakers.
>
>Anthony J. Martin
>Geosciences Program, Emory University
>Atlanta, Georgia USA
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