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Extraordinary Evidence and Inexplicable Ignorance: Bunch (2012) and The Bos (2013)

Bunch  Boslough It is telling to read competing journal articles regarding the Younger Dryas Boundary Event. For example below is the recent paper from The Bos, et al., and below that a publication from the YDB team the year before. (I was added as an author to that one based on some field work I did years before starting this blog). There are a number of interesting observations that…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Rise of the Zombie: Harvard Discovers Evidence for Major Earth Impact at Younger Dryas Initiation (~12,875 BP)

Update: As published in PNAS in July, 2013  “The [Younger Dryas Boundary] theory has reached zombie status,” said Professor Andrew Scott from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway. “Whenever we are able to show flaws and think it is dead [!], it reappears with new, equally unsatisfactory, arguments. [Sniff!] – “January 30, 2013, Royal Holloway Press…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question