Well, maybe. Maybe not. But I do own one of the largest intact Woolly Mammoth tusks found in recent years, and it has starred in a National Geographic episode as a potential relict of the bad times. There are indeed some unusual features to my tusk; odd marks, iron blotches, magnetic areas and such….
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C. Vance Haynes PNAS Article on the Black Mat \…
Here’s an excellent mash-up of bay LiDAR images Rick Firestone used in a recent article he wrote for the Journal of Cosmology, The Case for the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event: Mammoth, Megafauna and the Clovis Extinction, 12,000 Years Ago. Why is it excellent? Because perhaps it will inspire people to take this…
Separation of Magnetic and Carbon Markers 06…
One of the original 2007 Acapulco AGU posters: Recent evaluation by the author of the South Carolina Paleoindian point database indicates the substantial presence of a suspected Middle Paleoindian point historically known as Redstone (Cambron and Hulse, 1964; Mason, 1962; Perino, 1968; Williams and Stoltman, 1965). When compared with the known abundance of Clovis…
There was an interesting paper from Science last week concerning sea-level rise in and around the Younger Dryas. It looks as though there may have been a relatively small — but dramatically fast– rise in Sea-Level just before the YD: Deglacial Meltwater Pulse 1B and Younger Dryas Sea Levels Revisited with Boreholes at Tahiti, from Edouard…
The excitement when this scientific paper was published in 2001 was old news to me, really. I had first heard from William Topping way back in 1998. He was interested in Carolina Bays. Terribly interested. So was another scientist he said, Dr. Richard Firestone. I hit the search on Alta Vista and lo and…
It is truly disturbing to see a young grad student do a quick blog for AGU and reveal fundamentally new earth science — while the top writer for Science can sit in the 2nd row and not publish a word. Dukin’ Out the Younger Dryas Boundary: The session PP33B. Younger Dryas Boundary: Extraterrestrial Impact or Not?…
Here is an informative — if breathless — YouTube clip from one of the several television programs aired in the last year or two that featured the proposed Younger Dryas event. I am not certain of the name of this particular program — Mega Disasters “Comet Storm,” or some such. In any event, the…
I was fortunate to attend the YDB session in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. With a young family and a growing business it is tough — and selfish — to pull away to the West Coast to play scientist two weeks before Christmas. But I did. And I appreciate…
