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Jim Teller, professor of geological sciences at the University of Manitoba on the shore of Lake Lindero in Winnipeg April 29 2004. James T. Teller The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis achieved its first publishing “Three-Peet” of supportive papers this month. It started with the Thackeray paper the first week, then came the Moore paper in week two, and now at the end of October comes…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

Hot Comet News, Cold Shoulders from the Newspaper Science Desks

The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

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Bibliography and Paper Archive Permanent Page

See permanent page here Readers may recall a few months ago the Tusk and Australian university student Marc Young compiled a bibliography and archive file of all the YDIH publications since the seminal PNAS publication in 2007. I have taken the files and given them a permanent home here. The publication history of the subject is a long and complex one, but the arc of of the subject clearly bends…
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Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Alpine Younger Dryas Impact evidence

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Cosmic geochemistry from global cataclysm found in Palmetto State pond

New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth The muck that’s been accumulating at the bottom of this lake for 20,000 years is like a climate time capsule. Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago? In the space of just a couple of years, average…
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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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Martin Sweatman, when not writing a profound book, is building quite a nice catalog of videos concerning the YDIH and related subjects. This one is particularly welcome and represents the best walk-though of the debate, paper by paper, twist by turn, since Hancock’s careful narration here. This is invaluable science communication and should be viewed by anyone interested in the subject, pro…
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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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UnchartedX

Tusk video from Tall el-Hammam Ben at UnchartedX continues to produce excellent videos concerning the Younger Dryas Cataclysm and related subjects. Just recently he posted this superbly produced review of religious and mythical information and how it perfectly matches the hard science of impacts. Warning: This stuff is heavy, and as Ben points out, it may offend your spiritual sensibilities to…
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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

Video Round-up and the Foxhole

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Africa

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 author, Francis Thackeray, is no light weight, as…
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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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Tusk and Co. dig a Carolina Bay

Want to know a sure-fire formula to get long time internet friends together in person — and even outdoors on a blazing August day? Dig up a perfectly featured Carolina Bay. Long time Carolina bay enthusiasts, digital buddies of the Tusk, and curious citizens, Chris Cotrell, Antonio Zamora, Michael Davias, Micah Hanks and Jason Pentrail met up recently to — literally — get to the…
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Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Alpine Younger Dryas Impact evidence

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

The Bos & Co

Late to the Party

An instructive video accompanies the paper I’m trying to get out of town for a beach weekend, but I’ve wanted to get this paper up for days. The newly prominent role of the Taurids among American space scientists, with the role of The Bos discussed in a recent Tusk post here, is peculiar but not unwelcome. Fortunately, and perhaps for sake of the authors’ sense of integrity, the…
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#Pebblegate over; Tall el-Hammam paper remains published