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January 30, 2010

Clovis population decline at Younger Dryas?

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 points in South Carolina, a…

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January 22, 2010

New Paper: Sea Level jump at onset of Younger Dryas?

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 Bard, Bruno Hamelin, Doriane…

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January 21, 2010

Duncan Steele on the Brazilian meteoritic explosions of the 1930's

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January 19, 2010

Firestone and Topping 2001

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 behold, Firestone is indeed a San Francisco nuclear scientist — for the government. That…

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January 17, 2010

Scoop: Grad student beats major journal to the punch

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? II was standing room only. The question: What caused the thousand plus…

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January 17, 2010

Video: Clovis Comet theory

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 Cosmic Tusk is nothing if not multi-media, and we will present any…

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Clovis population decline at Younger Dryas?

New Paper: Sea Level jump at onset of Younger Dryas?

Duncan Steele on the Brazilian meteoritic explosions of the 1930's

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Scoop: Grad student beats major journal to the punch

Video: Clovis Comet theory

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