1998/05/12 by Samar Abbas, Abbas, Samar, Afsar Abbas +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics (physics.geo-ph) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #astro-ph #hep-ph #physics.bio-ph #physics.geo-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9805142
11 pages, RevTeX, no figures
arxiv created 1998/05/12 · openalex publication_date 1998/05/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A few of the major mass extinctions of paleontology have recently been found to consist of two distinct extinction peaks at higher resolution. A viable explanation for this remains elusive. In this paper it is shown that the recently proposed volcanogenic dark matter model can explain this puzzling characteristic of these extinctions. The accumulation and annihilation of dark matter in the center of the Earth due to the passage of a clump leads to excess heat generation with the consequent ejection of superplumes, followed by massive volcanism and attendant mass extinctions. This is preceded by an extinction pulse due to carcinogenesis arising from the direct interaction of the clumped dark matter with living organisms.