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Younger Dryas Boundary independently identified in Michigan and Alabama lakes; reconfirmed in Netherlands.....and another Cosmic Tusk?!?

Abstract Title: Late Glacial fire and nitrogen dynamics at lacustrine sites in Alabama and Michigan: evidence of an acid rain event? is part of the Paper Session: Paleorecords II. Climate and Environmental History in the Eastern U.S. scheduled on Tuesday, 4/8/2014 at 10:00 AM. Click below for author bios: Author(s): Joanne P Ballard* – University of Tennessee Sally P Horn &#8211…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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#YDB impact confirmed again: Volcanos and Asteroids and Mammoths -- Oh My!

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Re-Tusk!

I was chilling with the family two weeks ago at Atlantis, Bahamas, when to my surprise an additional mammoth tusk entered my life. I got a hush-hush email and photo from a friend and long-time employee telling me that our contractor’s brand new Volvo excavator was at that moment assisting in the excavation of a large mammoth tusk and skull. I was aware since 2007 that the stream channels…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Ignored but recorded: British Library interviews Baillie

I’m back — with at least five blogs loaded in my chamber. It is a terrible thing for a blogger to disappear for longish periods, only to re-appear with several posts in quick succession. But I’m not getting paid for this and (somewhat) erratic blogging is better than no blogging at all. (In my defense as well, pressing news on our subject has been scarce). First up is a wonderful…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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A comprehensive, modern Catastrophist Bibliography

William I. Thomson III is a new friend of the Tusk, and a helpful one at that. With great care and obvious patience Bill has developed a tremendously informative and downright fascinating bibliography of Catastrophism. Anyone interested in reading the variety of publications within, and contributors to, our broad subject will appreciate his hard work. The list is filled with today’s…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Independent confirmation: Young bucks at same school double-check National Academy member and YDB author Kennett's nanodiamond claims -- found 'em

 The excavation at Bull Creek, Oklahoma, shows the paleosol — ancient buried soil; the dark black layer in the side of the cliff — that formed during the Younger Dryas. – UCSB More recently, another group of earth scientists, including UCSB’s Alexander Simms and alumna Hanna Alexander, re-examined the distribution of nanodiamonds in Bull Creek’s sedimentological record to…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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PNAS: Diamond peak confirmed at YDB -- and Bronze Age collapse, perhaps?

 Table 1. Bement video Earlier GSA abstract Co-author spotlight: Andrew S. Madden Carter, Simms, Benamara…. PNAS Lexus lane? 46,000 hits! Significance In 2007, scientists proposed that the start of the Younger Dryas (YD) chronozone (10,900 radiocarbon years ago) and late Pleistocene extinctions resulted from the explosion of a comet in the earths atmosphere. The ET event, as it is…
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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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Dutch Crutch: Kloosterman hits field with pit sticks

At home with Han The Tusk has no greater admiration than our’s for Han Kloosterman. The Dutch geologist is a truly indefatigable prospector for the truth. Han has had some recent success in his decades long effort to describe the unique nature of his local expression of the Younger Dryas Boundary, his beloved Usselo Layer. Apparently, he has discovered two additional regional expressions of…
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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