Pro Younger Dryas Impact PapersRandom Tusks

Folks, I am sorry to have been so scarce in recent months. Among other excuses for the inexcusable, the auto-mailer for subscribers to the site went down, and I felt I needed to repair it before posting. Fixing it turned into a mess which led to my continued procrastination. Much has happened in recent months in our subject though, and I look forward to catching up and posting more, as the year…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

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Waaaay Down South

The main objective of this study was to test the YDB impact hypothesis by analyzing a wide range of data from the Pilauco site in southern Chile. The following conclusions show that our data and interpretations are consistent with the YDB impact hypothesis and we found no evidence that refutes the hypothesis. (1) At Pilauco, ~12,800-year-old peaks in high-temperature Pt-rich and native-Fe…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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A concise but comprehensive bibliography of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Permanent home of the Bib and Archive Long on the list of goals here at the Tusk is to host the world’s most concise, attractive, accessible and informative bibliography of our favorite subject. A baby step in that direction is submitted below for your perusal, download and propagation. With the help of Marc Young, here is a list of what we believe is the best selection of journal articles…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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100,000,000 - 1

Martin Sweatman, like The Bos, is a betting man. But in this instance I want his side of the wager. Today Sweatman published a masterpiece of original, rational statical analysis reporting a series of planetary catastrophes as recorded by our elders in ancient symbols in cave art and carved rock. The historic rejection of ancient animal art as symbolic of constellations has been destroyed with…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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First Younger Dryas Impact Crater Found: Greenland

Bos Bet… Voosen article in Science Magazine Seven Ages Daily Mail National Geographic BBC NYT MSN Oh, happy day! The Tusk heard about this discovery confidentially in March but the following nine months were characterized by an uncertain confidence this day would truly come. We had published evidence for a decade, and knew a climate changing Younger Dryas Impact had occurred during human…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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Czech Mate

See another blockbuster confirmation of the Younger Dryas cosmic impact below. I keep a pretty close eye on our subject but had no idea such intricate, original and thorough work was underway in the Czech Republic. Gunther Kleteschka has appeared on several YDB papers, but has clearly been busy in his own laboratory collecting entirely new, informative and well dated expressions of the YDB…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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Wally Broecker says a cosmic impact caused the Younger Dryas

I realize that this subject is distasteful to many because of the early false claims. But the new evidence suggests that there was some kind of extraterrestrial impact. Hence it should be given further study. I remember pleading with Science’s Richard Kerr to do a piece on this discovery. He thought about it and decided that, as he had written a very negative piece about the original idea, he…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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A friend sent me this paper from Dr. Martin Sweatman who gained international notoriety last year with a previous journal article linking the world’s most ancient temple, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, with the Younger Dryas Impact. The Tusk enjoyed that paper and was pleased to see Sweatman make a second contribution to our field; this time an informative overview of Catastrophism in general. We…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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An Astronomical Hypothesis for the Younger Dryas Impact Event

Paleolithic Extinctions and the Taurid Complex (2010) Centaurs as a Hazard to Civilization (2015) Excerpted from Page 11 Wolbach et. al Part One (2018) Astronomical Hypothesis for the YDB Impact Event Regarding the probability of a swarm of cometary fragments hitting the Earth, Boslough et al. (2013) claimed that the YDB event is “statistically and physically impossible,” whereas Napier…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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Black Mat in Turkey

This week Rick Firestone shared a little known 2009 paper with the Tusk and some others. I was unaware of it and enjoyed reading it. The authors find a unique spike in fire at Akgol, Turkey ~13,000 years ago which they attribute to a horrendous inferno in a marsh, of all places. They cite Firestone (2007). ABSTRACT: This study investigates changes in climate, vegetation, wildfire and human…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer