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October 27, 2015

Cosmic Tusk Interview: Dr. Bill Napier

The Paper The Tusk has been interested for some time in conducting an occasional interview with players in fields related to cosmic catastrophes in human times. So much of the coverage of our subject is “drive-by” journalism, with uninformed reporters on deadline asking shallow, often misinformed, questions of key scientists and then writing a story which barely informs. The subject…

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October 19, 2015

Carolina bays identified as hydrogen seeps in new paper

I heard have from this group of researchers on and off as they have tested for anomalous hydrogen in Carolina bays based on their work on similar features in Russia. They are very professional and quite certain their test data supports the hypothesis that bays are surficial expressions of hydrogen seeps from down under — not cosmic, mind you — but fascinating nonetheless. They even…

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October 9, 2015

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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July 28, 2015

New Paper: Younger Dryas Boundary impact date constrained within 100 years

UCSB press release Daily Mail Red Orbit Tusk regular Garcia makes hurculean effort on WUWT Paper below in response to ham-handed 2014 attack from Meltzer – Holliday [wonderplugin_pdf src=”https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/kennett-and-kennett.pdf” save=”1″] Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835–12,735 Cal B.P.

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May 18, 2015

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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May 2, 2015

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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April 12, 2015

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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March 27, 2015

Common culture embraces the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

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March 21, 2015

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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March 11, 2015

Napier Paper: Giant comets and mass extinctions of life

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Cosmic Tusk Interview: Dr. Bill Napier

Carolina bays identified as hydrogen seeps in new paper

Younger Dryas Boundary identified in Chile

New Paper: Younger Dryas Boundary impact date constrained within 100 years

To Australia with love, Michigan

Saul/Paul on the Road to Damascus: Cosmic Airburst?

Getting its propers: Younger Dryas Boundary takes center stage in Fall 2015 bestseller from Graham Hancock

Common culture embraces the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

Abstract: van Hoesel and Company discredit evidence they provide

Napier Paper: Giant comets and mass extinctions of life

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