Viva la Verde! Just in pic of radioactive Mexican green clay

March 5, 2010

Click for larger image Melissa Scruggs of the U of Missouri gang kindly sent me this tantalizing taste of their recently reported find of a YD-start age radioactive green mat. She said they have A LOT of samples they are working through and should report their findings in April. Understandably, they chose to…

24 Years: KT Boundary Impact Caused Dinosaur Extinction

March 4, 2010

Settled: Dinosaurs Done in By Asteroid San Francisco Chronicle, March 4 A large international, multidisciplinary, team of scientists use stratigraphy, chemistry and sedimentary analysis to prove an extinction causing impact at the turning point of two geological and biological ages. Younger Dryas Boundary Team, PNAS, 2007? Nope. KT Team iteration 2010, today in Science. A team of…

Thar She Blows! Napier paper goes public

March 4, 2010

Hubble pictures of fragment B of comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 taken on three successive days (April 18, 19 and 20of 2006) during its disintegration. Napier Astro Model Ras…

Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene

March 3, 2010

I love this paper. It’s in a great journal, chock full of well-sourced, multidisciplinary information, and written by a rock-solid expert in an immensely important field: Dendrochronology. While other Dendrochronologists signed-up for the terribly political job of attempting to document slow and incremental temperature change over the ages, Mike Baillie became an expert in…

False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

March 3, 2010

Unfortunately my tip regarding the Cornell site does not seem to work until (perhaps) the article is actually published. Working to find out more… “You can’t claim ownership of 1003.0744. We do not allow people other than the authors of an article to claim ownership of an article before it has been publicly announced. Historically,…

Public Access: Napier’s Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web

March 3, 2010

I just heard the Napier pap(i)er providing an astronomical context for the YD event can be had on the public access site here: Cornell University Library. I plugged in my name and am waiting for the verification code to be sent by email. I’ll try to put the paper up on Scribed — if that…

My apologies for the repeat emails to subscribers

March 2, 2010

I am sooo sorry folks. It was a mistake and it will not happen again…

Geology Conference: Radioactive “Green Layer” at Ice Age site in Mexico

February 28, 2010

The markers were located at a well-known Mexican Ice-Age site This is particularly interesting in light of Vance Haynes’ entirely separate publication last week. I cant find much on these folks, or at least Mellissa Scruggs. Perhaps they are young. If so, hats off to them. Their research confirmed the recent findings of one of…

Royal Astronomical Society: Napier provides astronomical model for YDB Impact Event

February 28, 2010

Bill Napier has a significant paper coming out soon in the Monthly Bulletin of the Royal Astronomical Society, and I got a look at it pre-publication. While I cant share the paper itself, I can share the abstract STRIKE and a few snippets STRIKE. The paper is significant because for the first time…

Terror From The Sky

February 26, 2010

This 1498 engraving of a bad day on the continent caught my eye on Michel-Alain Combes’ page here. I think it is from a famous French fall of that time period. Can someone translate the French for our readers? [ Click the comments link below to see the translation and explanation of the engraving]…

Google Earth video of Carolina Bays

February 24, 2010

A couple of months ago I was having some fun with Google Earth Pro and put together this little video demonstrating the ubiquity of Carolina Bays in Eastern North Carolina. This is one of those projects where you swear you will return and do a “second draft” in the near future — and never…

NOVA re-running YD Event episode tonight

February 23, 2010

Wednesday, February 23, 8:00 pm EST Full episode also available at NOVA website click below…

NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them

February 21, 2010

I have been interested for some time whether the WISE mission now underway is able to confirm or refute, in part, the widely dismissed theories of Bill Napier and the British NEO catastrophists. In particular, that the solar system is host to dangerous dark bodies as well as the better known and more easily spotted…

Guest Blog: A Catastrophist Manifesto from Han Kloosterman

February 20, 2010

Photo Jessica Kloosterman, Paris, 2009 Han B. Kloosterman — Amsterdam, The Netherlands A CATASTROPHIST MANIFESTO Originally Distributed at the Joint Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, May, 2007 Gottfriend Wilhelm Leibniz Leibniz’ Slogan Uniformitarianism, the gradualist doctrine in geology, finds its origin in the slogan Natura Non Facit Saltus, launched around 1700 by Gottfried…

Three of Four Clovis Sites radioactive according to Haynes et. al.

February 16, 2010

I’m reading the recent Vance Haynes paper and there is much on which to comment. But this caught my eye and I just had to share. Haynes et. al. took the surprising step of analyzing the sediment profile above and below the layer where the last of the first Clovis indians are found —…

Just in from Vance Haynes at Murray Springs Clovis Site

February 16, 2010

C. Vance Haynes Jr.a,1, J. Boernerb, K. Domanikc, D. Laurettac, J. Ballengerd, and J. Gorevac +Author Affiliations aSchool of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences,University of Arizona, PO Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721 bDepartment of Geosciences, University of Arizona, PO Box 210077, Tucson, AZ 85721 cLunar and Planetary Laboratory, Department of Planetary Sciences, University of…

Just Published: Independents locate ET Black Mat and more in Venezuela

February 15, 2010

An international team of scientists representing a number of disciplines locate bizarre materials and ET impact markers in a distinct layer of well-dated sediments from the initiation of the Younger Dryas and publish their findings in a major scientific journal. 2007 Firestone et.al. in PNAS? Nope. W.C. Mahaney et. al. Geomorphology — March 2010. In a…

AGU Fall Meeting Re-Cap Part Two: Tom Stafford’s Texas Hill Country Paleo site littered with ET evidence at start of Younger Dryas

February 12, 2010

Tom Stafford was an expert among experts at the Fall Meeting. I became aware of Tom Stafford when Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of America was published in Science in 2007. He is the Former Director of the Laboratory of AMS Radicarbon Research at University of Colorado. And for more…

Guest Blog: Hermann Burchard on Siberian Hot Spot Tracks

February 12, 2010

From Hermann Burchard: This note is a summary of aspects of Siberian geology as far as I have been able to gather relevant facts, occasioned in part by and meant to correct errors in what I heard on a TV program dealing with the Siberian traps [“Earth’s Deadliest Eruption,” Feb 9, History Channel, AETN,…

Firestone’s response to Paquay and Surovell papers blogged — Stafford, Sharma and Courty left out of discussion

February 7, 2010

Little Bird Update: A little bird called me to make a couple of points related to my blog last night regarding the (limited) Firestone quotes provided at Anthro.net. 1) Rick apparently used “we” inappropriately when claiming Surovell was biased. Other YD team members do not think Surovell was biased — and surely not malignly…

Exploring abrupt climate change induced by comets and asteroids during human history

Viva la Verde! Just in pic of radioactive Mexican green clay

24 Years: KT Boundary Impact Caused Dinosaur Extinction

Thar She Blows! Napier paper goes public

Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene

False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper

Public Access: Napier’s Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web

My apologies for the repeat emails to subscribers

Geology Conference: Radioactive “Green Layer” at Ice Age site in Mexico

Royal Astronomical Society: Napier provides astronomical model for YDB Impact Event

Terror From The Sky

Google Earth video of Carolina Bays

NOVA re-running YD Event episode tonight

NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them

Guest Blog: A Catastrophist Manifesto from Han Kloosterman

Three of Four Clovis Sites radioactive according to Haynes et. al.

Just in from Vance Haynes at Murray Springs Clovis Site

Just Published: Independents locate ET Black Mat and more in Venezuela

AGU Fall Meeting Re-Cap Part Two: Tom Stafford’s Texas Hill Country Paleo site littered with ET evidence at start of Younger Dryas

Guest Blog: Hermann Burchard on Siberian Hot Spot Tracks

Firestone’s response to Paquay and Surovell papers blogged — Stafford, Sharma and Courty left out of discussion

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