Well, maybe it’s not really a “thang,” yet. But the Tusk is having some popular fun on Twitter tweeting photographs of the iconic, but relatively unknown, Younger Dryas Black Mat.
I think many people interested in our subject have some sense that a clearly visible, multi-continent-wide, destruction layer exists, but many others certainly do not — and we all need to see more of it.
So I tweeted the black mat pic below last week and it proved popular on Twitter (for the Tusk at least). For better or worse, I committed in a reply to tweet-a-black-mat-pic-roughly-once-a-day, for a year. Like more cowbell, more black mat is always popular it seems, since subsequent pics were liked and loved too.
I think seeing the black mat may be intrinsically interesting to all people. What indeed could be more interesting than knowing that directly beneath our feet, at locations (with stable aggradation of sediment over 13 millennia) throughout the USA, North and South America, and overseas, is a little bit of a lot of hell?
Here is a cool pic of the Younger Dryas Black Mat in New Jersey. The Younger Dryas boundary, below the mat, is chock full of nanodiamonds created in the global cataclysm. See paper here: https://t.co/Mouuo8taae pic.twitter.com/hNyG5Pqqdk
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 22, 2019
This gentleman is contemplating the Younger Dryas Black Mat destruction layer at the Sunshine paleoindian site in Nevada. The stuff from the comet impact is generally BELOW the mat, the black mat itself is not from space lol. #ydih #askenilnow #blackmat https://t.co/TCiKG2xous pic.twitter.com/RjRWP1OZdp
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 23, 2019
Duuuude, check this out…its the freakin’ Younger Dryas Black Mat destruction layer!! And here’s a Clovis Point -right where the nanodiamonds are!! WHHooooaaa!!! A mammoth bone!!!!! More inside the link. #ydih #askenilnow @joerogan https://t.co/bch4mnF1IB pic.twitter.com/URmezuxSrh
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 24, 2019
My good buddy Han Kloosterman (d. 2016) contemplating the Usselo Layer which covers Western Europe. Han was the first to suggest the obvious, the layer was the sedimentary signature of a tremendous catastrophe that began the Younger Dryas. #ydih #blackmat #askneilnow @joerogan pic.twitter.com/WBSmv90sib
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 25, 2019
Here’s a kick ass pic of the Younger Dryas Black Mat destruction layer across the USA that resulted from the comet impact ~12,877 years ago. USGS link and description below #blackmat #ydih #askneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/AoW1OrdG9J pic.twitter.com/V10KOK4530
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 27, 2019
The Younger Dryas Black Mat exposure in Lommel, Belgium makes it pretty clear there was one world before — and another world after — the comet impact 12,877 years ago. #ydih #blackmat #askneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/DIEkp5DhIY pic.twitter.com/rN0ilkRR8m
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 28, 2019
Here’s a fine pic of my buddy Allen West and the Younger Dryas Black Mat extinction layer, taken from the NOVA episode on the #YDIH. Anyone interested in the ice age comet impact should watch this superb PBS documentary: https://t.co/tE0fO0QunI
#blackmat #askneilnow @joerogan pic.twitter.com/vc6CRI4WVO— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 29, 2019
Take a look at the transition to the Younger Dryas after the comet in this sediment core photo from White Pond in South Carolina, in Chris Moore’s paper this Fall. #ydih #blackmat #askeneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/lNM0Pl3FoR pic.twitter.com/8XRG7kgkGq
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 30, 2019
Let’s head south and check out the Mexican Younger Dryas #BlackMat that formed after the comet impact ~12,877 years ago. Here is a globally enlightening photo from a 2018 paper by a crack team of Mexican scientists. What a pic and paper!! #ydih @askneilnow https://t.co/ML7UBUct7j pic.twitter.com/mOGkewvREq
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) December 31, 2019
Now going waayy down south to the Younger Dryas #blackmat destruction layer in Patagonia, Chile. The layer is subtle to the eye here, but very clear to the microscope. First published evidence of the comet impact in the Southern Hemisphere. #ydih @joerogan https://t.co/hIvlEAsDfv pic.twitter.com/0dslmi9LUw
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 3, 2020
The #YDIH #blackmat in Lommel, Belgium is rising from the grave to attack the intrepid and indispensable Dr. Joanne Ballard of the Comet Research Group in Lommel, Belgium. #askneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/EmCWitq4iF pic.twitter.com/qNLJ92Xin3
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 4, 2020
The well dated paleo-site at Murray Springs, Arizona, is one of the finest expressions in North America of the #ydih #blackmat destruction layer following the comet impact. The impact was 5000x more recent than the dinosuar killer. #askneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/COEx85VWIc pic.twitter.com/4EXB1n0K8o
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 5, 2020
The #YDIH #blackmat destruction layer: Cold Edition. Yep here is a pic of the widespread “dusty” layer in the Greenland Ice Sheet reflecting nasty snowfalls after the comet impact. That’s about 8,000 miles from the black mat in Chile. #askneilnow @joerogan pic.twitter.com/bXT5ULxfOC
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 11, 2020
With the recent focus on #MEGXIT, I thought a #ydih #blackmat photo from the UK was in order. This site visited by the late Han Kloosterman, a black mat martyr, is a fine example. See excellent paper from Trevor Palmer in the link. #askneilnow @joerogan https://t.co/gAq7Xfh0gr pic.twitter.com/jaoC87EBIh
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 13, 2020
One of the many and varied exposures of the Younger Dryas comet catastrophe #blackmat in support of the #ydih hypothesis. ~12,881 years ago. Sheep Table Mountain, SD. #askneilnow @joerogan pic.twitter.com/ZOfRl7sM5C
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 17, 2020
Check out this pic of the #ydih #blackmat in an Ohio cave. See the link for more on Dr. Ken Tankersley's work at Sheridan Cave, and his discovery of a "platinum peak" left behind in the Buckeye State by the extinction comet ~12,802 years ago. https://t.co/86qXn3Vau1 pic.twitter.com/TrLMbAc42y
— George Howard (@CosmicTusk) January 25, 2020