spherules Archives - The Cosmic Tusk

August 23, 2022

Comet Research Group member Marc Young presents at Flinders U

In 2009 the newly proposed Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis was knee capped by Surovell et al. To this day, despite a comprehensive 2012 expose of Todd Surovell’s flaws, his premature rejection of the YD impact is uncritically cited by opponents of the evidence and remains the final word in many closed minds. It remains a grudging task of the Comet Research Group to periodically refute his…

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September 10, 2013

First Harvard, now Dartmouth: More independent evidence for Younger Dryas impact

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March 3, 2013

Cosmic Soil in Human History II: Marie-Agnes Courty's Dirty Work Through The Years

1998 Article [wonderplugin_pdf src=”https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/soil-record-of-an-exceptional-event-in-2000-bc-in-the-middle-east-courty.pdf” save=”1″] 2007 Abstract 2012 AGU, San Francisco: Formation of vitrous char that occur in ancient charcoal assemblages have remained unsolved. Laboratory experiments refuted vitrification to resulting…

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February 9, 2013

Typical: Boslough ignores LeCompte

[See comments: Boslough responds!] Boslough et al’s recent paper gives no less than nine separate citations to Todd Surovell’s 2009 publication: An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extra-terrestrial hypothesis. The multiple references are not surprising given that the Surovell paper has become a totem of Boslough and other’s crusade to end research into…

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February 5, 2013

Holy Hagiography!: Boslough "Jonesed" By Sandia Labs

I have seen some fawning press releases in my day but this is the most obsequious schlock I have ever encountered. Mark or his mum must have stayed up real late writing this one. I seriously doubt any “synthesis” rebuttal paper containing so little original work (What did kill all those animals? Global warming?) has ever been touted by a federally funded institution in so silly and…

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September 20, 2012

Unfiltered: Surovell - Holliday in PNAS, 2009

To a great degree the Tusk itself was a response to my frustration with Todd Surovell and Vance Holliday’s botched 2009 PNAS journal article, “An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis,“ published three months before this blog began. Despite my early understanding of the sloppy work of the authors, however, I did not have the data or…

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September 19, 2012

Breaking: Ducks join Gamecocks with press release calling out Surovell, et al. 2009

Today’s press release from the University of Oregon complimenting yesterday’s from the University of South Carolina. Surovell, et. al 2009 has another serious challenge here. Challengers to Clovis-age impact theory missed key protocols, new study finds EUGENE, Ore. — (Sept. 18, 2012) — An interdisciplinary team of scientists from seven U.S. institutions says a…

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September 18, 2012

PNAS: Five-Year study rips spear from back of YDB hypothesis

https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/Independent-evaluation-of-conflicting-microspherule-results-from-different-investigations-of-the-Younger-Dryas-impact-hypothesis.pdf Working on getting the paper. [Update: Got it above} This appears to be the long hoped for independent, intentional, blind, professional and reproducible confirmation of the original 2007 findings of the…

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April 24, 2012

Breaking: New PNAS Study Claims Black Mat Blast Materials Common To Wetlands

I’ll soon have the actual paper, but below is Sid Perkin’s take at Science Magazine. The news article itself already reveals what appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the YDB team’s previous results. The YDB team does not claim the blast spherules are from space. They believe they are terrestrial. The Lake Cuitzeo paper restated this conclusion. (See graphic below).

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July 30, 2011

Layer upon Layer: Dallas Abbott finds cosmic tsunami debris, well inland, throughout Holocene

PROGRAM NOTE: Can anyone “see” the embedded paper below within the window without a click?! For some reason I cannot… UPDATE: I can see it now. I should note, however, that these debris were from something that would have CAUSED a tsunami and then rained from above — not from a wave that reached the up-state itself. I knew that when posting but need to clarify I…

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Comet Research Group member Marc Young presents at Flinders U

First Harvard, now Dartmouth: More independent evidence for Younger Dryas impact

Cosmic Soil in Human History II: Marie-Agnes Courty's Dirty Work Through The Years

Typical: Boslough ignores LeCompte

Holy Hagiography!: Boslough "Jonesed" By Sandia Labs

Unfiltered: Surovell - Holliday in PNAS, 2009

Breaking: Ducks join Gamecocks with press release calling out Surovell, et al. 2009

PNAS: Five-Year study rips spear from back of YDB hypothesis

Breaking: New PNAS Study Claims Black Mat Blast Materials Common To Wetlands

Layer upon Layer: Dallas Abbott finds cosmic tsunami debris, well inland, throughout Holocene

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