The Cosmic Tusk

Touchdown!: YDB team publishes best paper yet in PNAS

George Howard — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:08:57 +0000

Airbursts/impacts by a fragmented comet or asteroid have been proposed at the Younger Dryas onset (12.80 ± 0.15 ka) based on identification of an assemblage of impact-related proxies, including microspherules, nanodiamonds, and iridium. Distributed across four continents at the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB), spherule peaks have been independently confirmed [...]

Great Book: The Comets of God

George Howard — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:19:02 +0000

Excerpts

I have a huge library of catastrophist books, both printed and now electronic. They range from horribly kooky and shallow to books that have millions of copies in their future. Dr. Jeffrey Goodman’s The Comets of God is closer to the latter. It will be read and re-read, particularly by Christians, and [...]

Sheridan Cave: A Bad Day for Flatheads and Beaver

George Howard — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:54:48 +0000

Tankersley Clovis Comet Sheridan Cave Ohio by George Howard

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QUICK POST: Boslough finally addresses LeCompte

George Howard — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:21:23 +0000

I am off to camp for indian tribe weekend with the Growling Bears.

No time for commentary — enjoy!

The Bos, et al.:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/17/1220567110.full.pdf?etoc

LETTER Faulty protocols yield contaminated samples, unconfirmed results

LeCompte et al. (1) reported abundant magnetic microspherules from three

Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) sites, which they concluded are consistent with

those interpreted by Firestone et al. [...]

Courty 2013

George Howard — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:58:24 +0000

Magnificent article from Tusk favorite Marie-Agnes Courty, and distinguished newcomer to catastrophist publications, Eric Coqueugniot.

I heard Courty hurl questions at San Francisco AGU in 2010 and only realized later who the thickly accented inquisitor was. Courty is French, very French. While I admire her style with translation and find it interesting, it can be [...]