August 2014

August 31, 2014

Joanne Ballard: Amazing pics from field work in European coversands

UPDATED In response to an inquiry from the Tusk, Joanne Ballard of the University of Tennessee very graciously provided our blog the unpublished photos, field notes and narrative below from her recent trip to Netherlands. She personally inspects and samples the Usselo Boundary, or black mat of Europe. Absolutely…

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August 31, 2014

Those darn nanodiamonds again in a High-Impact journal: More hard evidence and 26 independent researchers confirm cosmic Ice Age catastrophe

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August 31, 2014

Another requiem: Holiday-Meltzer doth protest too much

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August 23, 2014

International Space Station: Window scum supports Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred's long contention of teeming life in space

The space station is orbiting the earth in a total vacuum, there is no air, so it is a total defiance of the laws of physics to say these organisms were blown into space from Earth. ‘The only explanation is that they have come from elsewhere in space, and this supports long-held theories that plankton, and therefore all life on Earth including humans, originated from organisms in…

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August 19, 2014

Shaken not stirred: Zamora proposes ice impacts into fluidized sand surface to explain bays

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August 12, 2014

Just Sayin': Not all bays were lakes

Chris Moore, Andy Ivester and other skeptics of sudden bay formation recently published a beautiful poster detailing their findings and discussing their conclusions. I was impressed and disappointed. Impressed to see thoughtful research into the bay phenomena, disappointed that it ignored our previous published work determining that at least one (and presumably many more) Carolina bays were never…

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August 10, 2014

Found again: Cosmic geochemistry identified at Younger Dryas Boundary by independent international research team

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Joanne Ballard: Amazing pics from field work in European coversands

Those darn nanodiamonds again in a High-Impact journal: More hard evidence and 26 independent researchers confirm cosmic Ice Age catastrophe

Another requiem: Holiday-Meltzer doth protest too much

International Space Station: Window scum supports Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred's long contention of teeming life in space

Shaken not stirred: Zamora proposes ice impacts into fluidized sand surface to explain bays

Just Sayin': Not all bays were lakes

Found again: Cosmic geochemistry identified at Younger Dryas Boundary by independent international research team

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