Above all, he portrays the cataclysmic impact of the war on a generation and their expectations.
But at the high end, a small difference has cataclysmic impact.
How the solenodons survived that cataclysmic impact, which wiped out so many other species, is a mystery.
Further, an industrywide shutdown would have a cataclysmic impact on Southern California, where show business employs 470,000 people.
And it should have mentioned both the cataclysmic impact of the nylon shirt on the business and the survival of the dry-cleaner.
The lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, three teams of scientists are reporting.
PAGE A17 EXPLAINING A LOPSIDED MARS Three teams of scientists are reporting that the lopsided shape of Mars may well be a result of a cataclysmic impact of a Pluto-size meteor billions of years ago, adding strength to a theory first proposed in the 1980s.
Many interesting scenarios, such as cataclysmic impact, extensive wildfires, chondritic impactor, vaporization of carbon by lightning strike, and pyrolysis of organic matter, have been proposed to explain the formation of fullerenes in geological environments (see Buseck, 2002, and references therein).
More likely, Loeb says, passing stars will disturb comets lurking within the Oort cloud located beyond Pluto's orbit, thereby generating comet showers and perhaps more than one cataclysmic impact.
Therefore, the C60 in the K-T boundary layer may have originated in the extensive wildfires that were associated with the cataclysmic impact event that terminated the Mezozoic era about 65 million years ago.
