The Cosmic Tusk

April 13, 2014

Re-Tusk!

I was chilling with the family two weeks ago at Atlantis, Bahamas, when to my surprise an additional mammoth tusk entered my life. I got a hush-hush email and photo from a friend and long-time employee telling me that our contractor’s brand new Volvo excavator was at that moment assisting in the excavation of a large mammoth tusk and skull. I was aware since 2007 that the stream channels…

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April 13, 2014

Ignored but recorded: British Library interviews Baillie

I’m back — with at least five blogs loaded in my chamber. It is a terrible thing for a blogger to disappear for longish periods, only to re-appear with several posts in quick succession. But I’m not getting paid for this and (somewhat) erratic blogging is better than no blogging at all. (In my defense as well, pressing news on our subject has been scarce). First up is a wonderful…

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March 11, 2014

A comprehensive, modern Catastrophist Bibliography

William I. Thomson III is a new friend of the Tusk, and a helpful one at that. With great care and obvious patience Bill has developed a tremendously informative and downright fascinating bibliography of Catastrophism. Anyone interested in reading the variety of publications within, and contributors to, our broad subject will appreciate his hard work. The list is filled with today’s…

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January 28, 2014

Independent confirmation: Young bucks at same school double-check National Academy member and YDB author Kennett's nanodiamond claims -- found 'em

The excavation at Bull Creek, Oklahoma, shows the paleosol — ancient buried soil; the dark black layer in the side of the cliff — that formed during the Younger Dryas. – UCSB More recently, another group of earth scientists, including UCSB’s Alexander Simms and alumna Hanna Alexander, re-examined the distribution of nanodiamonds in Bull Creek’s sedimentological record to…

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January 22, 2014

PNAS: Diamond peak confirmed at YDB -- and Bronze Age collapse, perhaps?

Table 1. Bement video Earlier GSA abstract Co-author spotlight: Andrew S. Madden Carter, Simms, Benamara…. PNAS Lexus lane? 46,000 hits! Significance In 2007, scientists proposed that the start of the Younger Dryas (YD) chronozone (10,900 radiocarbon years ago) and late Pleistocene extinctions resulted from the explosion of a comet in the earths atmosphere. The ET event, as it is…

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January 21, 2014

Modern Chinese data fits ancient Chinese records: 8th Century event...comet

A comet collided with the Earth’s atmosphere from the Constellation of Orion on 17 Jan AD 773 with coma stretched across the whole sky and disappeared within one day with ‘dust rain’ in the daytime. — Old Tang Dynasty Book BBC…

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January 19, 2014

Dutch Crutch: Kloosterman hits field with pit sticks

At home with Han The Tusk has no greater admiration than our’s for Han Kloosterman. The Dutch geologist is a truly indefatigable prospector for the truth. Han has had some recent success in his decades long effort to describe the unique nature of his local expression of the Younger Dryas Boundary, his beloved Usselo Layer. Apparently, he has discovered two additional regional expressions of…

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January 3, 2014

Oceans to Ice: Marine diatoms found in Greenland ice suggests pummeled planet in 530's AD

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January 1, 2014

Andes to Alps: Mahaney et al. field evidence confirms cosmic cause for Black Mat from 10,000 BC

Wrote the book Recent Developments in the Analysis of the Black Mat Layer and Cosmic Impact at 12.8 ka Bibs and Bios: William C. Mahaney, Leslie Keiser, David H. Krinsley, Allen West!, Randy Dirszowsky, Chris C.R. Allen, Pedro Costa Article first published online: 6 DEC 2013 Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography Abstract: Recent analyses of sediment samples from “black mat”…

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December 30, 2013

Loose Goose: The Bos all over the map

Long ago the Tusk noted a fascinating 2010 missive from The Bos concerning the virtue of everyone (else) remaining intellectually flexible. Or, as he put it, having a willingness to “change your mind.” Here is the link and I have copied the text at the bottom. The Bos’ statement has not aged well. I attended his 2009 AGU Session and I shared his admiration of Wally…

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Re-Tusk!

Ignored but recorded: British Library interviews Baillie

A comprehensive, modern Catastrophist Bibliography

Independent confirmation: Young bucks at same school double-check National Academy member and YDB author Kennett's nanodiamond claims -- found 'em

PNAS: Diamond peak confirmed at YDB -- and Bronze Age collapse, perhaps?

Modern Chinese data fits ancient Chinese records: 8th Century event...comet

Dutch Crutch: Kloosterman hits field with pit sticks

Oceans to Ice: Marine diatoms found in Greenland ice suggests pummeled planet in 530's AD

Andes to Alps: Mahaney et al. field evidence confirms cosmic cause for Black Mat from 10,000 BC

Loose Goose: The Bos all over the map

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