Tom Stafford was an expert among experts at the Fall Meeting. I became aware of Tom Stafford when Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of America was published in Science in 2007. He is the Former Director of the Laboratory of AMS Radicarbon Research at University of Colorado. And for more than decade he has been President of Stafford Research Laboratories — the nation’s top private dating laboratory. He is to be taken seriously when, among other things, he tells you how old something is. I was looking forward to his presentation more than any other at the Fall Meeting. I was not disappointed.
Tom — who has never previously published with the YD team — laid out a very, very, tight and narrow layer of evidence supporting the purported event. In short, 151 centimeters below the surface at the pefectly stratified Hall’s Cave Paleo site in Texas was a 1 to 2 cm layer of dirt that was host to trillions of nanodiamonds and high levels of soot known as aciniform. Not above — not below.
Background article on Texas Hill Cave studies:
The sediments in Hall’s Cave were deposited fairly continuously over at least the last 17,000 years. The cave contains the best sequence of latest Pleistocene through Holocene sediments and bone of any Texas cave, and it certainly ranks as one of the excellent sequences in the United States. The temporal control is unrivaled with over 100 radiocarbon determinations from the sequence (Stafford and Toomey, in prep)
Continue reading AGU Fall Meeting Re-Cap Part Two: Tom Stafford’s Texas Hill Country Paleo site littered with ET evidence at start of Younger Dryas
I was fortunate to attend the YDB session in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. With a young family and a growing business it is tough — and selfish — to pull away to the West Coast to play scientist two weeks before Christmas. But I did. And I appreciate the patience of my family and my co-workers.
When I began this post (and this blog) I thought my first contribution would be to re-cap the entire AGU session. But it became too long for an inaugural post — and too short for the information at hand. So I will instead re-cap the session in a serial format with perhaps four or more posts covering each of the ten presentations, more or less paired pro and con, as presented in San Fransisco. One other thing before proceeding, I dislike writing tedious narrative of this type, recounting presentations, and I am no good at it. It makes for a tough first assignment for the Cosmic Tusk and I appreciate your patience with my pen.
Here now is the Part I Re-Cap, concerning the presentations by Drs. Wallace Broecker and Allen West:
It was a pleasure to see the YDB Session at AGU packed with interested young scientists and a number of old bulls — pro and con. I figure there were over 200 geeks crammed into the oral presentation at the Moscone Center West. The lucky few witnessed powerful, multi-disciplinary and independent presentations of new and old evidence supporting the YDB hypothesis, an effective refutation of the recent Surovell and the Gill papers (as far as a comet is concerned), and some decidedly lackluster presentations from important critics.
Continue reading Fall AGU Part I
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