Sentence examples for impact hypotheses from inspiring English sources

These considerations particularly impact hypotheses based on increasing the capabilities of systems already present in the animal, such as the salt gland and olfaction hypotheses, and indicate that these were not primary functions of the crest.

The impact hypothesis was resisted until the nineteen-nineties, when the existence of a huge impact crater formed precisely at the end of the Cretaceous was confirmed.

The plant fossil record is consistent with the impact hypothesis, and that the impact itself killed forests at least regionally, followed by a global nuclear winter which led to widespread extinctions cascading through the terrestrial food chain.

Unlike the end-Cretaceous event, there is no consistent evidence in rocks at the Permian-Triassic boundary to support an asteroid impact hypothesis, such as an anomalous presence of iridium and associated shocked quartz (quartz grains that have experienced high temperatures and pressures from impact shock).

This is called the giant impact hypothesis.

The giant impact hypothesis was first posited in the 1970s.

So, if the giant impact hypothesis doesn't explain the moon, how did it get there?

"We admit in our paper that we can't disprove the impact hypothesis," he notes.

Now comes what some researchers consider the strongest attack yet on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.

Most evidence for the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis, he says, was conjured up "out of thin air".

Although the impact hypothesis has been around for decades, it has been hotly contested.