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82 pages of results. 231. Some Preliminary Remarks About Thera and Atlantis [Journals] [Kronos]
... waves. Now this dissociation of Thera from the Exodus and interplanetary perturbations hardly damages any basic cosmological or chronological ideas, since powerful volcanoes like Vesuvius and Krakatoa, and, more recently, the Pacific and Icelandic examples can and do erupt without being triggered by celestial near-collisions. Moreover, it is possible that events described by King David, specifically earthquake, flood, smoke, fire, darkness, "hailstones and coals of fire" (II Sam. 22:5-19 and Ps. 18:5-18) may reflect the Theran eruption, provided that the passages are not metaphorical, and the date is not somewhat too early. With specific reference to Atlantis, Plato's account might retain ...
232. Oberg's Unscientific Method [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... M. French and Billy P. Glass- these quakes cannot be explained. Frohlich proved that, at these pressures and temperatures, rocks should flow and, therefore, should not be generating deep moonquakes. Gold told why deep-focus quakes are still unexplained after 18 years of when lunar exploration began: The depth at which the primary shock of an earthquake occurs can be measured quite accurately by modern seismic methods. Earthquake epicentres occur at all depths from a few kilometres down to as much as 700 kilometres. There is no significant break in that distribution, and we cannot ascribe the deep earthquakes to a totally different phenomenon from the shallow ones. Yet in a theoretical discussion of the fracture ...
233. The Passing of Elijah [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... ball lightning. There appear, nevertheless, to be two significant factors in its creation: an electric field and turbulent air. Where there is ball lightning there is usually an electrical storm in the vicinity; the extreme case is a tornado. "The occurrence of ball lightning is commonly associated with natural lightning events during thunderstorms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other such stressful conditions in nature." [5 ] Tornadoes are familiar terrors in a number of places around the world. Survivors having been through the eye of one always mention the flashing lightning within. But there is a less ferocious version occurring in many arid areas of the world, known as a whirlwind. It ...
234. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery [Journals] [Kronos]
... frequent, even obsessive reference to disturbances in nature. Thunder, lightning, and earth tremors precede the assassination of Caesar, while meteors and comets are so bright during the civil war that follows that Brutus needs no light by which to read an evening letter. A monstrous tempest shakes Britain as Lear rages insanely on the heath. Storms and earthquakes parallel the murder of Duncan, and nature's seasons are altered and reversed as Titania struggles with Oberon for possession of a changeling child. Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, in its title continues to suggest the dramatist's consistent preoccupation with the catastrophic forces of nature. Such images of natural disturbance, moreover, have been duly noted by various ...
235. Jericho [Journals] [Kronos]
... a Jericho of the days of the Early Bronze- the Old Kingdom in Egypt. Its defenses were destroyed, and immediately and in great haste the people of Jericho built again, but their hastily erected wall was destroyed by fire before having been completed. As to the causes of these destructions, Miss Kenyon expresses herself this way: "Earthquakes undoubtedly played their part. Owing to the cataclysmic terrestrial upheavals which resulted in the formation of this great cleft, the Jordan Valley is peculiarly liable to earthquakes.,,(6 ) [In a sequel to Worlds in Collision, purporting to describe earlier catastrophes, the end of the Old Kingdom will be synchronized with the great destruction ...
236. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... an illusion and an exaggeration. No one could have seen a wall of towering water. That there should have fallen sheets of flame and weird colored waters or dense substances, including even life forms, that ice and hail should fall in deluges and wind should sweep away forests: these again were delusions. Seeing the landscape dissolve in an earthquake, while even the air is rendered into visible shock waves, and seeing the Earth explode and pour out boiling magma from cracks and cones: again illusions. Telling of the destruction of almost all that was living: people must have been psychotic to make up and pass along stories of such events. The quantavolutionary position is that they ...
237. Instantaneous Polar Shifts [Journals] [Aeon]
... start rotating around a different axis unless there is some disturbing torque. The repositioning of the poles immediately follows whatever shift of material transpires on Earth's surface due, for example, to erosion and/or sedimentation processes, the drift of continents, and so on. Thompson may perhaps know that the sudden displacement of mass due to a major earthquake is immediately registered by the pole's position, with a jump in the order of meters- see, here, L. Mansinha & D. E. Smylie, Earthquake Displacement Fields and the Rotation of the Earth (N . Y., 1970), or consult the International Polar Motion Service (Ukian, Ca.). ...
238. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... most of those present at this conference last. Jill Abery Megalithic building It is widely recognised there was a megalithic building era, probably around 750BC, when peoples all over the world erected monuments from large pieces of stone. It also looks probable that it was the earth-shaking motions associated with the disturbances described by the Ninsianna tablet record which caused earthquakes and landslips, releasing large quantities of stone for easy quarrying. What is perhaps not so widely known is the degree of earth-shaking which would have been experienced. The earth inversion model described in SISR V:3 1980/81, pp. 96-97, plainly indicates that the principal destructive forces arise during the phase of the inversion ( ...
239. Pharos of Alexandria Found [Journals] [Aeon]
... by asking two questions: (1 ) What geological event was responsible for Alexandria's inundation under 20 feet of water, and (2 ) when did it happen? These questions still remain to be answered. Hypotheses, however, are not lacking. One speculation is that the city was hit and flooded by a tidal wave following the destructive earthquake of 335 A.D . But even this cannot be the complete picture because, once the flood-waters returned to the sea, the city should again have been left above water. Thus one cannot escape the conclusion that, somehow, whether due to this particular earthquake or to some other, the city itself sank. The one question ...
240. Tower Myths (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... swallowed a third of the tower. Fire fell from heaven and destroyed another third. The last third is still left. ' But even this is buried by the sands of the desert. The towers were built at a time when the Earth's crust was not yet as settled as it is now. Chasms must often have yawned, and earthquakes have shaken large areas. And the lightnings often struck the high towers jutting up in the plains, Thus they were levelled again. The pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, which was built as a thank offering to the water-god Tlaloc, who had saved seven brothers of the giant race from the deluge, was destroyed by fire falling from ...
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