Dinosaur-killing asteroid generated mile-high Tsunami

[MoreOrr]

Hi all. I've almost never posted on the Sciences forum, and it's certainly been a long time since the last time I did. But I saw this today
Dinosaur-killing asteroid generated TSUNAMI nearly one mile high
and immediately had a question which I suddenly thought to post here. The link itself may be of interest to some, but the question is this:
How is it that all that fire, dust, and water could exist in the same place?

It's a simple question and there may well be an easy explanation, and if so I'm curious to here ideas about it.

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[JMCx4]

Under existing models of the theorized event ...

1. "all that fire" from the initial asteroid impact was at extreme high temperatures which could not be immediately quenched by "all that water" - most of which would've been busy making a tsunami ring flowing away from the fiery impact site;
   
2. "all that dust" was thrown very high up in the atmosphere, where the Gulf waters could not affect it immediately (too high to splash) nor directly (surface water evaporation would have eventually contributed to dissipation of the atmospheric dust).

 

[Eisen]

Hi all. I've almost never posted on the Sciences forum, and it's certainly been a long time since the last time I did. But I saw this today
Dinosaur-killing asteroid generated TSUNAMI nearly one mile high
and immediately had a question which I suddenly thought to post here. The link itself may be of interest to some, but the question is this:
How is it that all that fire, dust, and water could exist in the same place?

It's a simple question and there may well be an easy explanation, and if so I'm curious to here ideas about it.

The water where the meteor hit was almost immediately evaporated, the tsunami was created by the impact explosion, the dust settles very quickly in higher atmospheric strata, where the water couldn't reach anyway. The fire didn't burn very long at the impact site.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The water where the meteor hit was almost immediately evaporated, the tsunami was created by the impact explosion, the dust settles very quickly in higher atmospheric strata, where the water couldn't reach anyway. The fire didn't burn very long at the impact site.

The explosion would of course have killed anything nearby, due to the sheer force of the shockwave.

That being said... if anything could theoretically have survived the impact, all that steam would have made for a rather unpleasant environment.

 

[JMCx4]

... if anything could theoretically have survived the impact, all that steam would have made for a rather unpleasant environment.

That hadda be one helluva shvitz.

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]