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82 pages of results. 251. Cosmic Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... recently demonstrated and said to be aged 350 million years. The initial impact penetrated to a depth of 12 km and amounted to 350 km in diameter. The rebound explosion and the collapsed rim enlarged the crater to a diameter of 700 km. The estimated kinetic energy of the event was ten billion times greater than that of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Alaska earthquake of 1964 or the Chinese earthquake of 1976 [5 ]. The fall, in a different time and place, could have obliterated France or Germany. And from the explosion would have emerged a catastrophic typhoon that would have towered into outer space. It would have darkened the globe with dust, caused ...
252. Some Additional Evidence from the Period from the Exodus to the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on his Stratigraphie comparée et chronologie de l'Asie Occidentale. Working independently of myself, he came to the conclusion that great catastrophes of continental dimensions closed several historical ages; the greatest of them took place at the end of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt and actually caused its downfall; the earth was covered with a thick layer of ash, violent earthquakes shook the entire ancient East, from Troy at the Dardanelles to the Caucasus, Persia and Egypt; civilisations of the Middle Bronze Age were suddenly terminated; traffic, commerce and pursuit of the arts ceased; populations of all countries were decimated and the survivors became vagrants; plagues took their toll; the climate suddenly changed, too. ...
253. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology [Books]
... to Venus "smoking" come from the sixteenth century A.D . As to the source of the tradition, Forrest was apparently satisfied with the first guess he uncovered. "All we have are some sixteenth century records which say, every so often, that the star smoked, but since the smoking seems frequently to be intertwined with earthquake activity . . . Humboldt's assumption seems reasonable." (6 ) With that stated, Forrest moved on, never returning to the issue of the Aztec "smoking star." An entirely different approach would have been to explore the possibility of a broader venus-comet association to see where the available evidence leads. Pursuing this course, Forrest ...
254. Pole-Shift [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Iexplained that most of the snow that falls in the polar regions does not melt; the air temperature is too low. Instead, it is stored, changing to glacial ice. As this process continues for thousands of years the ice mass grows until a sudden rotating of our planet takes place. The earth shifts on its axis, producing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tidal waves of almost unimaginable magnitude, as continents and sea areas are rearranged. When Hapgood realized this he enlisted the help of the great scientist, Albert Einstein. Einstein wrote: I frequently receive communications from people who wish to consult me concerning their unpublished ideas. It goes without saying that these ideas are ...
255. Jupiter God of Abraham (Part IV) [Journals] [Kronos]
... middle . . . And as, in burning wood, the burnt part is cast off with a crackling noise, so does the star [planet] throw off this celestial fire. . ." (269) That a similar belief was shared by the Babylonians, Pliny also recorded: "According to the doctrines of the Babylonians, earthquakes and clefts of the earth, and occurrences of this kind, are supposed to be produced by the influence of the stars [planets], especially of the three to which they ascribe thunder [bolts] ." (270) Pliny, who lived circa 23-79 A.D ., was merely reporting what the ancients of the ...
256. Planetary Identities: I, The Concept of Deity [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... state that Cardona's idea of primitive man is astronomically adept Assyro-Babylonian culture with its own complex oral and written language. ' [8 ] I am not that naive to mistake the Assyro-Babylonians for primitive peoples'. Now Boyles has the belief that primitive peoples were more concerned with the threatening character of everyday nature - such as flood, famine, earthquake, etc [9 ]. This, however, would only hold true if the planets, at close quarters, were less threatening than flood, famine, earthquake, etc. Moreover, what can be said if the floods and the famines and other calamities were actually caused by the interaction of planets at close quarters? If Boyles ...
... forming mostly hexagonal cubes. The cause was polar magnetization set in motion by immense magnetic electrons released by the sun's rays, thus providing the force which operates the earth's diurnal motion. The earth's axis in turn, through which the current passes, is periodically compelled to make slight readjustments necessitated by earth movements occasioned, say, by a major earthquake. If, as there is reason to believe, the earth's core is composed of basalt (itself a heavy, crystalline, fine-grained rock of felspar, augite, magnetic iron, and sometimes containing olivine), it is the explanation of the pillar basalt. At Coon Butte, Arizona, a catastrophe not dissimilar in character happened on ...
258. The Slip Of The Crust Under Meteoritic Impact [Books]
... of 10 cm. (at the latitude of 50 ) and of 23 cm. (at the equator). The records of the crust's tides are distorted by several types of disturbances, of which some are local. Tide measurements indicate viscosities of the order of 108 to 1013 poises.30 Calculations made on the energy necessary for deep-focus earthquakes have led geophysicists to believe that the coefficient of viscosity (or plasticity) is below 1020 poises at a depth of 700 km., and that it seems to exceed 1022 above this depth. But here too disagreement exists, as a result of ignorance of what really happens inside the Earth. As Gutenberg points out, `even ...
259. On the Orientation of Ancient Temples and Other Anomalies [Journals] [Aeon]
... in orientation would not have been tolerated either by the priesthood or by the local population. I believe that at the time each temple was laid out, the orientation was E-W with very little margin of error. The second and third temples of the Selinus list are different in azimuth by only 5 minutes of arc. Another hypothesis is that earthquakes may have caused the change in azimuth. Although this might be suggested, there is no mention by the archaeologists of breaks in the foundations that would serve to support this theory. Moreover, almost all orientation earthquakes produce up-and-down movement, not rotational. So it is unlikely that earthquakes occurring over a large area and a long period of ...
260. The Conquest of Canaan AND THE REVISED CHRONOLOGY [Journals] [SIS Review]
... city taken by the Israelites after crossing the Jordan from the Plains of Moab. The story of how the walls of Jericho collapsed miraculously, enabling the Israelites to enter the city (Josh. 6:20), is well known. It has been plausibly suggested by several writers that what the Bible describes is the effect of a sudden earthquake (10). The Israelites entered the city, killed its inhabitants, and then set it on fire. Thus Jericho was completely destroyed, and Joshua pronounced a curse upon any man who should attempt to rebuild it (Josh. 6:24-26). As was pointed out above, there is no evidence for a violent destruction ...
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