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328 pages of results. 251. Fossil Deposits [Books] [de Grazia books]
... clusters involving different species? A fossil generally connotes an individual, a herd, or a general disaster. The greater the confusion of species, the more likely an exoterrestrial catastrophe. Given the increase in studies demonstrating an exoterrestrial connection with general extinctions, can natural history be reordered according to the occurrence, frequency, and type of exoterrestrial disaster ... by the gases and ashes of Vesuvius in 79 A.D . The following exchanges concerning a fossil conglomerate of prehistoric Nebraska clarifies the issues, as perceived by uniformitarians and catastrophists [5 ]. We quote the catastrophist: "In the American Museum of Natural History (New York) there is on display in the Late Mammals room ( ...
252. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... reader must allow for bias in the rest of this review!) Cosmic Heretics is comprehensively subtitled "A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1963 to 1983". The book is "personal" on several levels. Though autobiographical, its form is biographical; de ... other players, by way of extracts from their personal correspondence published without permission. In fact, for "engrossing" above, a number of prominent American participants in the catastrophist saga might prefer the term "enraging". As a bevy of attorneys may well be working at this very moment to have the book recalled for major cosmetic surgery ...
253. C&C Review 1996:1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 1996:1 Texts Home | SIS Review Home Chronology & Catastrophism Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 1996:1 News 2 Articles Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution 4 Trevor Palmer reconsiders Darwin, Lyell and the great Victorian catastrophists The Homeric Question 14 When were Homer's epics written? Benny Peiser looks at ... history Hazor and the anachronisms in the chronology of the Ancient Near East 21 Gunnar Heinsohn find strange anachronisms in the archaeology of Hazor. Shamir 27 Phillip Clapham asks whether this legendary substance was really something upstairs'? Einstein and Relativity 27 Alasdair Beal looks at the strange world of relativity theory. Notes and Queries 34 Tutankhamun radiocarbon dates Recent Developments ...
254. The Extinction of the Mammoth by Charles Ginenthal (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2002:1 (Jul 2002) Home | Issue Contents Book Review The Extinction of the Mammoth by Charles Ginenthal 1997 (Special edition of The Velikovskian, comprising nos. 2 & 3 of Vol. III) Jill Abery, J.B . Delair Charles Ginenthal takes us back to the exciting ... pole shift and sudden tectonic motions, carrying the ecosystem of the ice age' creatures into the Arctic and disrupting human civilisations, again as described in myth. Although modern catastrophists' are beginning to accept that Earth has suffered catastrophes of cosmic origin, they are still far from considering such a radical scenario but they will have to do much ...
255. Gases, Poisons and Food [Books] [de Grazia books]
... may establish that cometary passbys have occasioned violent volcanism - all of this during the uniformitarian Solarian period. All the more may have happened, then, during ancient periods of catastrophes. Cosmic dust can be struck by particles from the Sun or stars and emit gases. David Tilles explains only 20% of the argon 36 and 38 on Earth ... the mammoths, not waiting for the chapter on extinction [6 ]. One almost should say the "deathless" case, for it has endured the whole battle between catastrophists and uniformitarians, two hundred years - except that now it may even become the case of the "deathless" mammoth, for a late news report tells us that ...
256. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1987 No 2 (Jan 1988) Home | Issue Contents Reviews The Making of a Continent by Ron Redfern BBC Books, 1983 It is a great pity that Velikovsky did not espouse the theory of plate tectonics. At the time of their formulation, Wegener's ideas of continental drift were as unacceptable as ... a painless and artistically appealing introduction to plate tectonic theory. More importantly. it inadvertently shows that far from being the ultimate in uniformitarianism this theory holds much potential for the catastrophist. Jill Abery, 1987 Gunnar Heinsohn's Mesopotamian Historiography [Sumerians and Akkadians Never Existed - from the Ghost Empires of the Textbooks to the Reconstruction of Real Historiography in the ...
257. Ancient Mysteries (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... was reasonably settled and accepted some two decades later. Rast, who taught at the parochial Valparaiso University in Indiana, happens to be a second-cousin of this reviewer. On catastrophism: There's little doubt that James, whose freelance bag is in archaeology, history, and mythology, and Thorpe, a lecturer in archaeology, are of a catastrophic ... , devoting considerable space to discussions on catastrophist literature. Their preferences seem to lie in cometary or asteroidal impacts, or even volcanic eruptions, bringing world ages and cultures to a close. However, they also give somewhat short shrift to such peripheral authors as Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert, [4 ] Graham Hancock, [5 ] and ...
258. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... this second installment of Solar System Studies (1 ) we shall take up these issues left unaddressed in our opening presentation: The Earth/Moon subsystem Plate tectonics A tentative catastrophic scenario Questions and implications arising from the model THE EARTH/MOON SUBSYSTEM The orbital plane of the Earth/Moon barycenter is by definition the ecliptic, and this plane ... ocean cracks and sea floor subduction under the edges of continental plates. This seems to fly against thermodynamics and the fact that heat loss within the Earth is uniform. Some catastrophists say crustal cracks and shifts resulted from close encounters between Earth and other planets a few millennia ago. Though this argument may be valid, some may doubt whether such ...
259. Thoth Vol IV, No 9: May 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... [ Home ] THOTH A Catastrophics Newsletter Vol IV, No 9 May 31, 2000 EDITOR: Amy Acheson PUBLISHER: Michael Armstrong LIST MANAGER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS I DON'T BELIEVE THIS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .by Mel Acheson THUNDERBOLTS OF THE GODS: an intro ... bodies in the solar system, perhaps leaving its scars on human imagination as well. And now, a half century after Worlds in Collision, a few well- accredited catastrophists, including dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, are beginning to admit a debt to Velikovsky, usually with the disclaimer that of course he was wrong about unstable planets being involved in ...
260. The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet by Graham Hancock [Journals] [Aeon]
... . For the most part these sources are of the catastrophist school of thought, with one unfortunate and singular omission- the work of the modern-day doyen and patron saint of catastrophism, Immanuel Velikovsky. This negligence aside, Hancock takes us on a tour of Mars exploration by early astronomers and space probes, empathizing with their (and our) ... it brings together much of the current published suppositions and widely disparate sources that might otherwise be difficult to amass as references. For the most part these sources are of the catastrophist school of thought, with one unfortunate and singular omission- the work of the modern-day doyen and patron saint of catastrophism, Immanuel Velikovsky. This negligence aside, Hancock ...
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