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Younger Dryas Boundary identified in Chile

Paleomagnetism and Mineralogy of Unusual Silicate Glasses and Baked Soils on the Surface of the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile: A Major Airburst Impact ~12ka ago?. Pierrick Roperch, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France [email protected]  Abstract ID: 60319  Abstract Body: Unusual silicate glasses were found in northern Chile in one of the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert. The scoria-type…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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To Australia with love, Michigan

Davias and Harris are wowing them again this week at the Geological Society of America. I will try and get a hold of their wonderful presentation and post….. Posted!: [wonderplugin_pdf src=”https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/3-1_Davias_linked.pdf” save=”1″] Saginaw bay impact A TALE OF TWO CRATERS: CORIOLIS-AWARE TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS CORRELATES…
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Saul/Paul on the Road to Damascus: Cosmic Airburst?

The early evangelist Paul became a Christian because of a dazzling light on the road to Damascus, but one astronomer thinks it was an exploding meteor NEARLY two thousand years ago, a man named Saul had an experience that changed his life, and possibly yours as well. According to Acts of the Apostles, the fifth book of the biblical New Testament, Saul was on the road to Damascus, Syria…
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Getting its propers: Younger Dryas Boundary takes center stage in Fall 2015 bestseller from Graham Hancock

Magicians of the Gods from Amazon The Joe Rogan Experience The Tusk has a large library of books related to catastrophism. I love them all. From the laboratory inspired to the ridiculously speculative, the range of publications touching on what happened 12,800 years ago is delightfully enormous. Unfortunately, many of these books have painfully small sales — sometimes in inverse proportion…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Abstract: van Hoesel and Company discredit evidence they provide

Here is an abstract of a curious study from our Dutch skeptics. They call into question the presence of shocked quartz in the YDB despite the YDB “team” itself never making such claims. (Independent forensic support for the YDB hypothesis by our hero Mahaney did make such a claim for the Venezuelan deposits). The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis suggests that multiple airbursts…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Slide show: Tusk back from Jordanian dig

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Tall el-Hammam Excavation: Tusk travels to Hashemite Kingdom in search of biblical catastrophe

Tall el-Hammam, Jordan Valley, Jordan Nice background comment from Phil Clapham — who got me into this Your correspondent has some fun news to share. The Tusk is writing from downtown Amman, Jordan, after joining Trinity Southwest University on a fabulous dig for biblical Sodom. I have been meaning for weeks to let you all in on the adventure but have been distracted more than usual by my…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question