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76 pages of results. 91. The Siwalik Hills. Ch.6 Mountains And Rifts (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Siwalik Hills The Siwalik Hills are in the foothills of the Himalayas, north of Delhi; they extend for several hundred miles and are 2 000 to 3 000 feet high. In the nineteenth century their unusually rich fossil beds drew the attention of scientists. Animal bones of species and genera, living and extinct, were found there in most amazing profusion. Some of the animals looked as though nature had conducted an abortive experiment with them and had discarded the species as not fit for life. The carapace of a tortoise twenty feet long was found there; how could such an animal have moved on hilly terrain?1 The Elephas ganesa, ...
92. 'No Impact': René Gallant (1906-1985) [Books]
... Gallant deserves recall for having helped to establish the important interrelationships between the now sadly separate sciences of History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Mathematics, Geology and Biology in his truly interdisciplinary book of 1964 [4 ] . But opinions of the merits of this book have been as divided as opinions on the meteorite-impact hypothesis' as an explanation of mass extinctions in the geological record. In a letter to me (dated 23/9 /1994) the pioneer of meteoritics, Robert Dietz (1914-1995) [5 ] wrote that Bombarded Earth had "little scientific merit. It is the work of a rank amateur and, if anything, set the science of impactology' back". ...
93. Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe by Fred Warshofsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... writer, has here produced an excellent short overview of catastrophic theories on nearly everything from the "Big Bang" that could have created the cosmos to the thermonuclear holocaust that may terminate social order on Earth. Of the twelve chapters in the book, the three best seem to me to be those on myths, ice ages, and phyletic extinctions. Admirers of Immanuel Velikovsky will, I think, be almost equally pleased with chapter 3, "Worlds in Collision" (pp. 35-63 in the paperback edition), which gives one of the clearest and fairest summaries of "The Velikovsky Affair" that I have ever read. To be sure, Velikovskian literature is now so ...
94. Darwin In South America. Ch.3 Uniformity (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... . He wrote later that these observations served as the "origin of all my views." His observations were made in the Southern Hemisphere and more particularly in South America, a continent that had attracted the attention of naturalists since the exploration travels of Alexander von Humboldt (1799-1804). Darwin was impressed by the numerous assemblages of fossils of extinct animals, mostly of much greater size than species now living; these fossils spoke of a flourishing fauna that suddenly came to its end in a recent geological age. He wrote under January 9, 1834, in the journal of his voyage: "It is impossible to reflect on the changed state of the American continent without the deepest ...
95. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... herbivores and the environment all make sense. Far from being, as portrayed in lost world' films, roaring statues who would have difficulty catching any self-respecting tortoise, Tyrannosaurus rex could run as fast as today's predators, if Bakker has interpreted correctly the evidence of dinosaur footprints. So, if dinosaurs were so successful, why did they become extinct? Bakker does not doubt the significance of extinction events. The rise of the dinosaurs in the first place was helped by the mid Permian (Kazanian) and late Permian extinctions of proto-mammals. The proto-dinosaurs (thecodonts) became extinct at the end of the Triassic, to be replaced by the dinosaurs themselves, and the high-browsing dinosaurs of ...
96. Epilogue (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... major role in cosmic processes. Youthful features have been found on Venus and Mars. Jupiter and Saturn have been found to be considerably more active than the cold, dead planets they were thought to be. Recent space data have led some astronomers to consider that Mercury, and the satellites of Saturn underwent major orbital changes. Repeated major faunal extinctions are now thought to have been caused by extraterrestrial impacts. Even in the field of archaeology, where the available evidence grows more slowly than in the space sciences, more and more findings have confirmed Velikovsky's earlier claims. On the basis of his understanding that Venus is a relative newcomer to the planetary system, Velikovsky claimed that the planet ...
97. Catastrophism and the Mammoths- III (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... cold-loving species and from representations in paleolithic cave art. To judge by Cardona's example, however, this approach would seem to be subject to misconstruction and abuse. When, unfortunately, Cardona cites the association of mammoth remains with those of ostriches, he is clearly the victim of the loose terminology used by careless writers who often refer to any extinct elephant species as "mammoths", whereas the taxon with which we are concerned is specifically the woolly mammoth, i.e ., Mammuthus primigenius. Just as Cardona is to be forgiven for such credulity, so ought he to be excused his interesting, though irrelevant, 160-word digression upon the vexed issue of just how straight the ...
98. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1995, pp. 38-43 Most stars the age of our Sun apparently have a stellar companion although astronomers still cannot explain how these binary systems form. This has led to theories about our missing partner, such as the Nemesis star, supposed to orbit every 30 Myrs, displacing showers of comets into the inner Solar system and causing periodic mass extinctions. However there is still no evidence for our companion: Jupiter is supposed to be too small by a factor of ten. Our only hope is apparently a brown dwarf star, so difficult to detect that so far none have been found. Planets far .. .. .Washington Post 20.4 .96 and 22. ...
99. Scientific Evidence for A Major World Catastrophe About 11,500 Years Ago: A Preliminary Selection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... before us. The subject, of course, is complex. Accordingly the relevant fields of data have been broken down into separate categories which, although really all interrelated, are also capable of standing on their own as genuinely distinct avenues of enquiry. In the order presented today, they are: The Drift' Erratic boulders Crustal dislocation Premature extinction Unnatural congregations Fast Blitzschnell' The Metal Factor Manganese nodules All the material discussed concerns an event which, on the basis of an average of over nine hundred radiocarbon dates, occurred approximately 11,500 years ago. It also indicates that the Ice Age, so beloved of orthodoxy, almost certainly never existed, or did so only as ...
... 27 The ancient history of the globe, which is the ultimate object of all these researches, is also of itself one of the most curious subjects that can engage the attention of enlightened men ; and if they take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations. We admire the power by which the human mind has measured the motions of globes which nature seemed to have concealed for ever from our ...
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