Hiawatha Crater: still smokin’?

Crater research team reveals tentative evidence at 2019 AGU

February 15, 2020

I’ve previously posted my frustration with the silence concerning the presumably on-going research to characterize and date this extraordinarily young impact crater in Greenland. I’ll put that rant aside, and repeat the establishment line here (unchanged since the discovery): The cosmic impact crater creating, climate changing, 5-mile deep, 19-mile wide, bowl of molten rock is[..

Ancient tree and plant parts found in Greenland’s youthful Hiawatha Crater

Dr. Kurt Kjaer collecting samples at Hiawatha Crater

February 25, 2019

The large variety of Hiawatha impactite grains containing terrestrial organic matter with a likely age between 2.5 Ma and 50 ka support the conclusion in [1] that the crater itself is not much eroded and very young, and the possibility of an age of less than 50 ka remains open. [..

Hiawatha Crater central peak

Hiawatha Discovery Team member Anders Bjork tweets 3D crater model

December 31, 2018

As most crater heads know, a “central peak” within a bowl shaped depression is diagnostic of a large “complex crater” resulting from a highly energetic (to say the very least) cosmic collision. Though NASA made an effort to point out the subtle peak features of Hiawatha Crater beneath a mile of erosive ice, the[..

The Hiawatha Crater and Global Warming politics

Science communicators give tongue to cats

November 30, 2018

In addition to the recent history of the earth, its animals, and mankind, the Hiawatha Crater discovery may have something else to teach us. The Tusk finds the real-time sociological implications of the crater as fascinating and instructive as the feature itself. I’m obsessed by what the new information reveals about the motivations and[..

Saginaw Bay to Hiawatha Crater

Via the Nastopoka Arc in Hudson Bay

November 25, 2018

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Tusk on Hiawatha

A recurring thread as things develop in the short term

November 17, 2018

What a week. The announcement of the Hiawatha Crater is hands down the most important development in the eight year history of the Tusk. Lest I remind you, when your blog’s tagline is “Exploring abrupt climate change induced by comets and asteroids during human history”, and Science publishes a feature article titled: Ice Age[..

The Fall of Phaethon

Long published field evidence supports Bronze Age Bavarian impact

June 17, 2021

The Chiemgau impact in Bavarian Germany stands out as particularly sympathetic “martyr” crater. The evidence for a Bronze Age euro-apocalypse is sincerely published and well established as a legitimate hypothesis based on decades of meticulous fieldwork, but entirely dismissed because the proponents believe the impact was relatively recent in geological terms, and the authors[..

Crater Denier

Crater man Christian Koeberl denies impact crater

June 6, 2021

To gauge the depth of the anti-science pathology surrounding the Younger Dryas Impact, it is instructive to review a single quote from an oft-quoted ‘expert’ in cosmic impact craters, Dr. Christian Koeberl. In 2018, shortly after NASA announced in Science the discovery of the Hiawatha Crater in NW Greenland, Koeberl provided his opinion, which[..

Recant

Pro-science skeptic Dr. Marc Defant now supporting #YDIH based on Powell book

June 8, 2020

Dr. Marc Defant did a great thing this morning by announcing on Twitter and his blog that he had come around to support the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. As I told Marc, my respect for his intellectual integrity soared when I saw his tweet.[..

Planet’s earliest agricultural village melted by cosmic hell in Syria

Comet Research Group in Nature

March 7, 2020

“A single major asteroid impact would not have caused such widely scattered materials like those discovered at Abu Hureyra,” Kennett said. “The largest cometary debris clusters are proposed to be capable of causing thousands of airbursts within a span of minutes across one entire hemisphere of Earth. The YDB hypothesis proposed this mechanism to[..

Lake Tahoe Comet Tsunami

Sediments date to Younger Dryas comet impact quake

March 7, 2020

One of the best things about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis is finding catastrophic features that may date to the event, but have not yet been directly connected with it. Today I submit one of the finest examples: The Great Lake Tahoe Comet Tsunami. Its is a well-published and uncontroversial fact that in the prehistoric[..

Mark Boslough makes prescient calculation in 2013 paper

March 1, 2020

A persistent critic of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the Comet Research Group has lately gone quiet on our favorite subject. As the supporting papers and independent confirmations have rolled in, Mark “The Bos” Boslough, is scarcely heard from. His last report even seemed a clumsy attempt to scramble on board with a[..

#divethenipple

Miami Beach "impact crater" goes entirely unstudied

February 20, 2020

If you ever suspected something may be wrong with science look no further. In 2012 brave citizen of Miami Cory Boehne noted that just south of the Port of Miami ship channel, less than two miles from downtown Miami Beach in 30′ of water, was the signature of a cosmic collision: A complex impact[..

Top Science story in 2018 receives zero attention or follow-up in 2019

January 17, 2020

Fourteen months ago the Tusk could not have been happier. Science Magazine not only addressed the Younger Dryas Hypothesis for the first time in a decade, but did so in a lavish, well-written article. The article accompanied the announcement of what seemed could be the long sought ‘smoking gun’ of the YDIH: A massive[..

Tusk challenges Rogan to question Tyson regarding the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

November 6, 2019

The Tusk recently appeared as a guest on the UnchartedX YouTube series. It was fun and I have a lot of respect for Ben’s work to publicize the YDIH and the Comet Research Group. But if had to do the podcast over again, I would have made more than a passing reference to an[..

The Bib

October 20, 2019

Welcome to the permanent host page for the most comprehensive bibliography and free paper archive of scientific literature concerning the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. The effort was compiled in a collaboration between the Tusk and Mr. Marc Young, an Australian Archaeology & Enviro-Sci undergrad who performed most of the meticulous work. Significantly, this page[..

Africa

Younger Dryas Impact Platinum peaks found again in Southern Hemisphere

October 2, 2019

NY Post Gizmodo Quartz Francis Thackeray This confirmation of a South African platinum layer from the Younger Dryas Impact was particularly welcome for several reasons. First, it is another confirmation of evidence for the impact in the Southern Hemisphere, following the Pilauco paper from Chile in March of this year. Second, the lead[..

Second suspected Greenland crater announced by NASA

Hat tip from Steve Garcia posted December 31st on the Tusk

February 11, 2019

Only at the Cosmic Tusk can you expect to see a major global announcement by NASA scooped by six weeks. Thanks to our blog’s most dedicated contributor, Steve Garcia: You heard it here first. See other, non-prescient, contemporaneous coverage here: NBC: Immense crater may have been found deep under Greenland’s ice sheet PhysOrg: NASA finds possible[..

Another crater?

Second feature found inland of Hiawatha may be hinted 2nd Greenland crater

December 31, 2018

Longtime Tusk buddy and dedicated Catastrophist Steve Garcia went crater hunting and located IMHO a great candidate for the second crater hinted at by NASA scientist Dr. Joe MacGregor of the Hiawatha Discovery Team. He was thoughtful to send the Tusk the first image below of the suspect dimple beneath a mile of ice.[..

Saginaw Bay fingered by gravity data as ice impact feature

Davias and Harris at Cintos.org vindicated

December 22, 2018

Wow. The cascade of stupefying new discoveries continues. A paper published today in the Journal of Great Lakes Research provides evidence from gravity anomalies that Saginaw Bay in Michigan is a remnant feature of an impact into an ancient ice sheet. This and the recent discovery of Hiawatha Crater make for an interesting configuration.[..

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Crater research team reveals tentative evidence at 2019 AGU

Dr. Kurt Kjaer collecting samples at Hiawatha Crater

Hiawatha Discovery Team member Anders Bjork tweets 3D crater model

Science communicators give tongue to cats

Via the Nastopoka Arc in Hudson Bay

A recurring thread as things develop in the short term

Long published field evidence supports Bronze Age Bavarian impact

Crater man Christian Koeberl denies impact crater

Pro-science skeptic Dr. Marc Defant now supporting #YDIH based on Powell book

Comet Research Group in Nature

Sediments date to Younger Dryas comet impact quake

Mark Boslough makes prescient calculation in 2013 paper

Miami Beach "impact crater" goes entirely unstudied

Top Science story in 2018 receives zero attention or follow-up in 2019

Tusk challenges Rogan to question Tyson regarding the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Younger Dryas Impact Platinum peaks found again in Southern Hemisphere

Hat tip from Steve Garcia posted December 31st on the Tusk

Second feature found inland of Hiawatha may be hinted 2nd Greenland crater

Davias and Harris at Cintos.org vindicated

YDIH Bibliography

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