Loading...My name is George Howard. I have a young family and a growing company in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. I also have a two-fold fascination: 1) Achieving environmental quality through the judiscious use of market-based government regulatory systems (about which I blog elsewhere). And, 2) All things related to the developing science of extraterrestrial impact induced rapid climate change during the Holocene and slightly before. About which I blog here.
After graduating with a BA in Political Science in 1989 from the University of North Carolina, I did a six-year stint in Washington D.C. as a conservative political staffer in the United States Senate. I have never read the Bible and I am not a Creationist. I have, however, come to believe that many of the old stories are true and we need to heed them. I have believed for more than a decade that ET-induced climate catastrophes have happened over the last 13,000 years and demand further investigation and commentary as an issue of public safety — not politics or religion.
I am a co-author of the Firestone, et. al. PNAS paper in 2007 and several other posters. My contributions consisted largely of field work and analysis of the phenomena known as Carolina Bays. Carolina Bays, and their many explanations, continue to puzzle me. This blog will investigate Carolina Bays and other proven and unproven impact related phenomena — but it will focus on the proposed Younger Dryas Event.
Finally, I am a skeptic. I do not take blogging on weird scientific theories lightly. I don’t believe in UFO’s, Chiropractic, Astrology, 2012, and most toxic environmental threats. I am not stirred to almost any form of collective action on behalf of almost anything. But I do believe in the power of blogs to change things. And I think the threat is real.
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Yes, the Dryas should be related to a cosmic origin, as well many axis orientaded elliptical palaeolagoons worldwide.
I worked on prehistoric rock art and the possibles prehistoric registers for the Panela crater event (Brazil), for over 15 years. The investigations shows interesting informations, about the rock art of a meteor (it’s tropospheric explotion and the one that formed the crater) and the parallax of wiew from the sites where the painting are found.
http://astrofotos.info/main.php?g2_itemId=37534
Now I’m working in some possibles elliptical orientated axis palaeolagoons found worldwide, possible meteoritic relate event(s). There are hundreds of these shallow landforms in Brazil. My first contact with them was in June 2009.
http://astrofotos.info/main.php?g2_itemId=39482
The hypothesis is that some of these palaeolagoons should be of a cosmic origin, from the meteoroids of a defuct comet.
http://astrofotos.info/main.php?g2_itemId=41510
People worldwide would reported these events. The hyphotesis of meteors coming from the south and the parallax site wiew of the prehistoric registers appear to function as well for Rio Cuarto and some elliptical palaeolagoons in Africa.
The palaeolagoons could be as old as the End-Pleistocene.
http://astrofotos.info/main.php?g2_itemId=40514
I’m thanks in advence for your coments about these topics
yours
pierson
NEW! More about global mass extincion on 12,900 BPE, possibles craters and scars, palaeolagoons in Brazil.
http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/impact-craters/end-pleistocene-palaeolagoons
regards
pierson
Hi Pierson,
Those ‘palaeolagoons’ are very common in the southwest US as well.
There is much field work to do on them. But I’ve cataloged well over 800 of them in Arizona, west Texas, and new Mexico. There are a large variety of shapes to them. And many of them are squarish in shape. So I’ve been calling them square craters. You can find those photo galleries at, http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/square-craters
Many of them have the look of having been produced by a shaped explosive charge that detonated at, or very near the ground. And I don’t think they are impact craters in the normal sense. But I do think they are of ET origin. And I think they may be examples of the work of some of the explosive ices described by E.M. Drobyshevski.
See: Tunguska-1908 and similar events in light of the
New Explosive Cosmogony of minor bodies, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2268163/Explosive%20Cosmogony.pdf
In a private email exchange with Bill Napier, he explained that while he couldn’t support the icy moon origin of the short period comets. The explosive, electrolized, ices Drobyshevski describes are still possible, depending on how long the object was orbiting in the solar wind.
You will find that many of those ‘palaeolagoons’ are a perfect mach for the two bowl craters Drobyshevski describes.
Hi Dennis
I have researched the subject to at least 15 years. I Identify the parallax view of the bolide passage in prehistoric rock art to the Panela crater. The same thing could be observed in rock arts for Rio Cuarto scars in Argentina and paleolagoons in South Africa.
But recently (2010) the prehistoric record that caught my attention was the Great Serpent Mound Geoglyph in USA. The Geoglyph reveals other possible related elipticall 60 km near structures in Ohio, and at 1,500 km structures in Florida and in the Bahamas Sea. http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/impact-craters/holocene-palaeolagoons
It also could confirms a south meteor shower oringin. http://sites.google.com/site/cosmopier/palaeometeorstream
Please feel free to make comments!
These events would been cyclical, millennial and global, maybe from 10,900 to 1,200 BC. They were catastrophic, caused large changes in the planet, but not so badly that an entire comet. After the catastrophe, the palaeolagoons were very important for the environment and social evolution.
I have no doubt that the Square Craters you found are relatives of South American, African and Australian palaeolagoons, scars and craters are countless.
Did you found any possible impactite in the ET-structures?
best regards
pierson
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Hey guys. Just put up a link on the front page to the strange square bays of Bolivia. By the way, you may find using google map boxes helpful as well in your pages, communications and I think even comments. All you do just go to regular google maps, find your feature, and copy the “embed code” in the share section. Then past that into your pages. Helps folks put things in perspective.
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Yep! Google maps can indeed be placed into comments with just three clicks!
Just click “links” above the given map, and then copy embed…should assist Tusk discussions.
What tells us they are not wind-carved lakes?
I’m poor as a church mouse. So I haven’t been able to do anything to them but catalog them so far.
As for the wind doing it; that’s a fair question George. But how many times have you been asked that about the CBs?
Anyway, the answer is, because they don’t all have water in them. Many are only a burn scar. And they are found in a very large variety of target surfaces. I can’t figure out how to get the wind to make craters with square holes in the botttom.
With a little experimentation to focus the stream, and get the pressure just right, I can get a high pressure pulse of compressed air to make a crater that you can’t tell from a ballistic impact crater. Heck I can even hook up the power supply from a plasma torch in a steel shop and raise the temp of that pulse of compressed air to a plasma of well over over 10,000 degrees C. And give you a crater with some impact glass in the bottom to play with. Or I can take the voltage, and heat, still higher, and make a convincing crater using nothing but a high voltage, electric plasma discharge. But I can’t figure out how to get just pressure alone to burn a square hole in the bottom of the crater.
The square craters are something different that raises many questions. I have cataloged over 800 of them. As well as too many normal craters the size of football stadiums to count.
The images are in photo galleries on Dropbox.com of roughly 100 pictures each. Every image has the GPSs at the bottom of the image. And links to those galleries can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstormproject/square-craters There is also a short slideshow of them on that page.
After you’ve looked closely at a few hundred of them I doubt you’ll consider the wind as a suspect anymore.
But while you’re on that page, make sure you look at the gallery called ‘Crater fields’
Hi Dennis, George, folks
We must bear in mind that usually the smaller craters (paleolagoons) are often modified by human action. Some of them are enhanced in order to accumulate more water, others are used for mining. The larger basin can be damed, to supply cities. In the first moment, more important is to investigate the effects of shock on the target rocks, looking for impactites, or (stone) meteorites in the around smaller ones. I prefer to start my views on those larger than 100 m, outside the main drainage, and preferably virgin or lightly modified by human action.
Agreed, most of them are in cattle country. In the American Southwest, persistant drought is the rule of life. Any place that can be modified to store a little bit more water has been.
But with well over 800 of them already cataloged in New Mexico, and west Texas alone. And with too many normal round impact craters to count in the 100 meter diameter range, also cataloged, then when the funding presents itself to do a long road trip, and collect some specimens, there is no shortage of undisturbed sights to choose from in the American Southwest.
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Hi George: I have not been in touch just lately (working on some other things). A few years ago now, there was an article or at least an abstract presented at the San Frnacisco AGU conference on some signs of cosmic impact in the North Pacific. Do you happen to have any further information on either who the researcher was or if there has been any further developments in that regard? Thank-you, Rod Chilton.
Hey Rod Chilton!
No I don’t have the article but sure hope someone who sees this does, and contacts you. I still feel guilty I never properly reviewed your great book.
Thanks for checking in.
GAH
Hi George: Yes, I really think the North Pacific may well be one of the locations where a large bolide struck the earth and created huge tsunamis that contributed greatly to the ice age mammal demise, at least in Alaska and Siberia (possibly South America? too). Yes, as well to the hope you might have been able to review my book. I did know you were an extremly busy guy, though and so I understood. I have to say sales have been extremely disapponting. In part this is due to me not being in the mainstream as far as this topic is concerned. I tried all sorts of journals to get more exposure, with what I thought was a slant that suited each, but no takers, as yet. Alas, I did become discouraged, it must be said. However, I do not want to bore you with this mundane stuff. But if any of your readers remember the scientist who I think presented a paper (poster or otherwise) at the AGU conference in San Francisco a couple of years ago I would be very appreciative. Take care George, and even though I have not been visitng your site just recently, I still think this is a very valuable forum!!!!!Please keep up the good work!, Rod Chilton.
Rod, North Pacific may well be one of the locations where a large bolide struck the earth
Nice idea, so that explains why the YDB team isn’t going to find an impact crater.
If, as Michael Davias believes, the Saginaw Bay impact is real and caused the Carolina Bays, that would precede the YDB according to E P Grondine, which I find all very confusing. But was it still in Bølling-Allerød??.
Hi Hermann: Yes I think the very larges (intact meteor(ite) struck the Pacific. However, that does not preclude that other smaller impactors also hit the planet (possibly too the Laurentide Ice sheet and yes Saginaw Bay ( I must check the Michael Davias reference (do you happen to have it Hermann? ) I think though there amy have been some comet and asteroidal activity (See Victor Clube and Bill Napier for the premsie of an extended onslaught from Space – something I do talk about in my book “Sudden Cold An Examination of the Younger Dryas Cold Reversal” incidentally. That may explain some other features like the Carolina Bays, if in fact they have been dated earlier than the Younger Dryas.
Rod, see your comment of May 26, 2010 on Cosmic Tusk
following George’s story about Michael which refers to his web site:
http://cosmictusk.com/perigee-zero-carolina-bays-in-the-midwest
Thank-you Hermann, you have a much better memory than I. I will check this out.
Hi Rod –
Since there was clovis culture use of the Carolina Bays (discussed earlier here at the tusk) they are far earlier than the YD event.
I think Lloydminster is a good YD geobleme candidate, as is Iltrude in South America. There will be another at one of the western glacial lakes.
Any more recent news of new data on the northward outflow of Lake Agassiz? Any news from the US-Canada Arctic Ocean survey team?
Ed,
Clovis Culture use of the Carolina Bays
You mentioned this in an earlier comment on the TUSK. Are any details about this available on the TUSK, or where can a curious guy like myself read up on this?
Hi E.P. Hermann, George and others: Just a few comments from me. E.P. you asked about any new data on northward flow from Lake Agassiz. The last reference I have was: J.B. Murton et al, 2010, Identification of Younger Dryas Outburst Flood Path from Lake Agassiz into the Arctic Ocean, Nature 464, 740-743. You are probably all aware of this particular reference. If not, the authors contend that a very large meltwater flux took place from the northern climes via the Mackenzie Drainage system. The problem is before this simulated flow would work both the terrestrial surface and the ice margin had to be adjusted (fudged????or is that a bit too harsh)? In any case, this adjusting process without very good reason does not impress me in the least. Also, I found the reference I was asking about earlier while reading through the summary of the Swiss conference(Dr. Sharma 2009). It is stated in the summary, that there are low OS isotopic ratios within the Mn materials, presumably extracted from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is stated further that this resulted from “post impact dust clouds” possibly over the Oceans. My particular view, is that there may well have been one of the larger bolides (at Younger dryas) striking somewhere in the Pacific that then lead to gigantic tsunamis. this may offer at least a part of the explanation for the massive large mammal die offs in Siberia and Alaska. Also,possibly some interesting massive mudslides in South America (in a usually very dry region) in what today is coastal Peru. George do you have the Sharma reference? Thanks.
Hi Hermann –
It was in one of the paper’s George linked to – perhaps if you google my name, clovis, cosmic tusk, and bays, google will direct you to the right post here.
Hi Rod –
I am pretty confident that Algonquin ancestors survived the YD on the Pacific Coast of Canada, so I am pretty sure that we can rule out impact tsunami opening the Bering Straits. It would be nice to get some 14C dates on the Fairbanks bone deposits.
I was hoping that the paper at Berne would give more data. We also should have the Canadian_US arctic reports pretty soon.
Does anyone have the GSA meeting schedule yet?
George, CL’s back.