The Cosmic Tusk

September 6, 2013

Nanodiamonds re-confirmed at YDB

Tip of the Hat: Thomas Lee Ellifritz Nanodiamond Quantification in Pre-Younger Dryas to Recent Age Deposits Along Bull Creek, Oklahoma, USA Leland C. Bement, Andrew S. Madden, Brian J. Carter, Alexander Simms, Andrew L. Swindle, Hanna M. Alexander, Scott Fine, and Mourad Benamara, Geological Society of America 125th Anniversayr Annual Meeting, 27-30 October 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA…

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September 5, 2013

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September 3, 2013

Published critic not reading YDB papers....Jacqueline Gill goes to Twitter seeking well-established impact marker info

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September 3, 2013

Two Ivies in two months confirm YD impact: Pinter of Southern Illinois - Carbondale to NBC: "Fringe science," questions integrity of National Academy of Sciences

A meteor or comet impact near Quebec heaved a rain of hot melted rock along North America’s Atlantic Coast about 12,900 years ago, a new study claims. Scientists have traced the geochemical signature of the BB-sized spherules that rained down back to their source, the 1.5-billion-year-old Quebecia terrane in northeastern Canada near the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At the time of the impact, the…

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August 19, 2013

RIP: YDB team member Paul DeCarli

I was sad to see a forwarded note last week from the daughter of Paul DeCarli informing folks of his passing. Paul DeCarli joined the YDB team in recent years as an expert in nanodiamond formation and other high energy matters related to our investigation. Readers may remember a post on DeCarli here. A wag once remarked that science advances one funeral at a time. In cynical moments it seems…

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August 16, 2013

The Eyes Have It: Clovis peckers record YDB event in America's oldest petroglyphs?

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August 13, 2013

Mahaney....Again!: New Evidence from a Black Mat Site in the Northern Andes Supporting a Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago

Source: JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY Volume: 121 Issue: 4 Pages: 309-325 DOI: 10.1086/670652 Published: JUL 2013 Abstract: Previous work has ascribed a cosmic impact origin to black, high-temperature, carbon-encrusted beds (2–3 cm thick), associated with the Younger Dryas readvance of ice at 12.8 ka during the Late Glacial in the northern Andes of Venezuela. The evidence for this includes carbon…

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August 11, 2013

Baillie Years and the Black Death

More info here and here Baillie Black Death and Tree Rings Coincident -Marc Young here- In the process of restoring this document from the library fire, I was unable to gain access to the original book titled New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection. I did however track down a chapter by Mike from Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society that you can read below. I will keep trying to…

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August 10, 2013

WikiLies: Skeptical Raptor squelches science

The accuracy of information concerning the YDB event on the Wikipedia has always suffered from the dominance of a moderator describing himself as “Skeptical Raptor.” Watching the Raptor do his wiki-work has taught the Tusk that cynicism has few bounds — and the truth has few friends (that stay up that late at night). The Raptor constantly cleanses the public’s Wiki of any…

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August 9, 2013

Beautiful Blog: Naturalis Historia unpacks the science behind the YDB hypothesis

The YDB Event: The Most Recent Global Catastrophe in Human History? MAY 24, 2013 BY NATURAL HISTORIAN The Chelyabinsk meteor explosion as recorded by a dash-cam of a truck.. Remember the meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year? A 50 foot diameter object exploded 14 miles above the surface of the earth and created a shock wave that injured 1500 people and damaged more than…

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Nanodiamonds re-confirmed at YDB

Published critic not reading YDB papers....Jacqueline Gill goes to Twitter seeking well-established impact marker info

Two Ivies in two months confirm YD impact: Pinter of Southern Illinois - Carbondale to NBC: "Fringe science," questions integrity of National Academy of Sciences

RIP: YDB team member Paul DeCarli

The Eyes Have It: Clovis peckers record YDB event in America's oldest petroglyphs?

Mahaney....Again!: New Evidence from a Black Mat Site in the Northern Andes Supporting a Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago

Baillie Years and the Black Death

WikiLies: Skeptical Raptor squelches science

Beautiful Blog: Naturalis Historia unpacks the science behind the YDB hypothesis

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