The Cosmic Tusk

February 6, 2010

Material found in bogs suggests cosmic relation to historic climate downturns

Wow. I tossed up an oldish link to an abstract by Lars Franzen — and today Lars sends me a nice note with a more recent article attached. Until I hear otherwise I am sharing it. Absolutely facinating. Lars’ paper shows a link between abrubt climate change and cosmic material. He doesn’t speculate too heavily on the precise nature of the cosmic flux — could be little…

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February 4, 2010

Bang: NatGeo covers new evidence from the Holocene Working Group

You gotta love the Yellow Rectangle. Richard Lovett writes for National Geographic that the The Holocene Working Group (HWG), as ably led by Dallas Abbott of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has new work out. [Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around AD 500: Double impact may hvae caused tsunami, global cooling]. It seems the HWG has confirmed the presence of…

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February 4, 2010

A Carolina Bay or two....in Kansas

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February 2, 2010

German researchers have found those same pesky nanodiamond encrusted Carbon Spherules

Sometimes it seems the YDB team is treated as though they are the only researchers who are finding these interesting little orbs. I don’t know if that is because the critics are ignorant of the other research, or just giving things a spin. Fact is, more than one group unrelated to and certainly not in collaboration with the YDB folks are finding the same things. Note the German…

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January 31, 2010

Allen West on the Black Mat at Pecos Conference, August, 2008

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January 30, 2010

Is there really a Cosmic Tusk?

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. It is currently under study by Jon Hagstrum when he is not working at USGS. In fact, Jon…

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January 30, 2010

Carolina bays....in the Midwest?

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 phenomena a little more seriously. For instance, those who…

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January 30, 2010

The PNAS article that kicked-off the most recent phase of the debate

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January 30, 2010

Original YD team poster from 2007 Acapulco AGU

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January 30, 2010

Sampling protocol for (some) markers of the YD event

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Material found in bogs suggests cosmic relation to historic climate downturns

Bang: NatGeo covers new evidence from the Holocene Working Group

A Carolina Bay or two....in Kansas

German researchers have found those same pesky nanodiamond encrusted Carbon Spherules

Allen West on the Black Mat at Pecos Conference, August, 2008

Is there really a Cosmic Tusk?

Carolina bays....in the Midwest?

The PNAS article that kicked-off the most recent phase of the debate

Original YD team poster from 2007 Acapulco AGU

Sampling protocol for (some) markers of the YD event

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