The Cosmic Tusk

February 5, 2012

Abstract

At the end of the Pleistocene a Younger Dryas “black mat” was deposited on top of the Pleistocene sediments in many parts of North America. A study of the magnetic fraction (~ 10,900 ± 50 B.P.) from the basal section of the black mat at Murray Springs, AZ revealed the presence of amorphous iron oxide framboids in a glassy iron-silica matrix. These framboids are very similar in appearance and…

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February 5, 2012

Yet More Game Change

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January 31, 2012

Carolina Bays and Peat Fires

[scribd id=79972389 key=key-y6alm3f9ndc57vgfupt mode=list]But some bays have no peat! “Analysis reveals that, unlike typical, peat-rich Carolina Bays, Howard Bay essentially lacks peat, diatoms, pollen, and other organic materials, and it also lacks substantial silt and clay. That suggests this Bay never held water for a sustained length of time.

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January 6, 2012

Tar Hell: Carolina coast and the UK catastrophically inundated by tsunami circa 1000 AD

I have always been personally curious about the lack of documented evidence for a tsunami ever occuring on my home coast of North Carolina. Some of the largest undersea land slides on earth have been documented off our wonderful Outer Banks, and earthquakes are not completely unknown in the Carolinas. Both cause big waves. But more to the point for the Tusk, some very credible work has documented…

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January 1, 2012

East To West?: Jersey Big Wave at 12,900 ya

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December 31, 2011

West to East?: Belgian Tsunami at the Lower Younger Dryas Boundary

Below is an excerpt from the Field Notes of the Andronikov expedition to inspect the black mat in Europe. At a site just west of Lommel, Holland they find an intriguing feature (above) that some interpret as possibly being a signature of an ancient tsunami at the onset of the Younger Dryas. I located on Google Earth what appears to be the archeological site where they took the samples and then…

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December 31, 2011

Field Report: Andronikov Expedition to Examine Black Mat

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December 29, 2011

Game Changer: Independent Confirmation of ET Materials in Arizona and Dutch Black Mats

Your correspondent was doing some navel gazing last night and checked the academic “cites” for the soon to be even more famous 2007 paper, “Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling.” I’ll be darned if I did not come across a just-added citation from a group at the University…

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December 24, 2011

Adoration and the Comet from Giotto

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December 4, 2011

Trust but Verify: Independent confirmations of the Younger Dryas Impact Boundary

Skeptics of the YDIB hypothesis frequently state that “no one can reproduce the YDIB results” (Kerr, 2010); “nobody has found anything” (Kerr, 2010); there is a “lack of reproducibility of data” (Holliday, 2011); and “unique peaks in concentrations at the YD onset have yet to be reproduced” Pinter (2011). These casual dismissals are hurtful to the investigation, demonstrably false…

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Yet More Game Change

Carolina Bays and Peat Fires

Tar Hell: Carolina coast and the UK catastrophically inundated by tsunami circa 1000 AD

East To West?: Jersey Big Wave at 12,900 ya

West to East?: Belgian Tsunami at the Lower Younger Dryas Boundary

Field Report: Andronikov Expedition to Examine Black Mat

Game Changer: Independent Confirmation of ET Materials in Arizona and Dutch Black Mats

Adoration and the Comet from Giotto

Trust but Verify: Independent confirmations of the Younger Dryas Impact Boundary

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