Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Halley's Comet lays waste: Abbott at AGU on the 530's Event

Dallas Abbott Grail Tale? Live Science article Baillie Year Did a 6th Century Comet Bring Global Famine? Evidence from tree rings and ice cores suggest that parts of Europe, Asia and North America saw protracted cooling in the 530’s, which has been linked to drought and famine. Some scientists hypothesize that Halley’s Comet may have caused this, by leaving a dust trail that the Earth…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Layer upon Layer: Dallas Abbott finds cosmic tsunami debris, well inland, throughout Holocene

PROGRAM NOTE: Can anyone “see” the embedded paper below within the window without a click?! For some reason I cannot… UPDATE: I can see it now. I should note, however, that these debris were from something that would have CAUSED a tsunami and then rained from above — not from a wave that reached the up-state itself. I knew that when posting but need to clarify I…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Bang: NatGeo covers new evidence from the Holocene Working Group

You gotta love the Yellow Rectangle. Richard Lovett writes for National Geographic that the The Holocene Working Group (HWG), as ably led by Dallas Abbott of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has new work out. [Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around AD 500:  Double impact may hvae caused tsunami, global cooling]. It seems the HWG has confirmed the presence of…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question