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76 pages of results. 141. Towards a new Evolutionary Synthesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 000 years, a very short period in geological time), the animals would be the size of a large elephant. With that, and a token nod to Gould, Eldredge and Stanley [2 ], he leaves the subject, as if all the apparently abrupt changes in the fossil record involve nothing more complicated than size. Mass extinctions are almost totally ignored, more space being given to the subsequent adaptive radiations. Of course, evolution can proceed for millions of years (according to generally-accepted dating) without being influenced by a mass extinction, but when one occurs, from whatever cause, the whole course of evolution is changed [2-4]. To discuss evolution without ...
142. Comets And Catastrophes [Journals] [Pensee]
... scattered over Earth's surface, but also for the catastrophic breaks between major geological periods. He cites as possible effects of these collisions "great variation in climatic conditions," "great seismic effects," "extensive lava flows," and the "scattering of ocean water over land areas." Many animal and plant types must have become extinct. "It does seem possible and even probable," writes Urey, "that a comet collision with the Earth destroyed the dinosaurs and initiated the Tertiary division of geologic time." So Urey offers a set of data which, to his mind, calls for a catastrophic interpretation. And, needless to say, he does not ...
143. Aeon Volume IV, Number 4: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... the lost universe of the ancients" which has been proposed in lieu of the planetary theory. Page 13 The Milky Way Ev Cochrane reviews ancient lore concerning the Milky Way and comes to the conclusion that the present stream of stars in the night sky known by that name was not the subject of such lore. Page 39 The Reality of Extinctions The extinction of prehistoric fauna due to celestial bombardment has now captured the imagination of scientists and laymen alike. Yet Peter Michael James is of the opinion that, while these extinctions were the result of catastrophic events, they were caused by an entirely different mechanism. Page 67 Whence Homo? Man's family tree is examined by James Strickling who ...
144. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... be possible to discover a true exoterrestrial deluvial sediment by, if nothing else, the exclusion of all other explanations from related features. Sometimes fossil lake and sea basins are detected and, rarely, a sudden displacement of waters from the bed is the subject of comment. The "outrageous hypothesis" of Bretz governing the sudden emptying of now extinct lakes in a barrier-bursting flood of northwestern U.S .A . - the Channeled Scablands - is a case in point. Where one lake is emptied, exoterrestrialism is doubtful. If "2+ bodies of 100 km 3 of water were abruptly displaced at the same time," exoterrestrialism would be indicated, possibly an axial tilt ...
145. Earth has Flipped Over in Space Many Times [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... says a British scientist. These polar reversals, which take as little time as one day to happen, explain many geological and archaeological mysteries that puzzle scientists. According to physicist Peter Warlow in the Journal of Physics (A , 10 November 1978), polar reversals- also called pole shifts or axis shifts- explain ice ages and animal extinctions. Mammoths, for example, have been found frozen intact in the Arctic, perfectly preserved. One in Siberia was standing upright with undigested summer vegetation still in its mouth and stomach. Yet today the treeless Arctic could not support the vast herds of grazing mammoths and other animals whose bones have been found there by the hundreds of thousands ...
146. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Sept. that: "Many well-qualified scientists of the highest standing would today accept many of [Bishop Samuel] Wilberforce's criticisms of Darwin .. . Today it is the conventional neo-Darwinists who appear as the conservative bigots." And Professor A. Hallam told the BA that, whatever the merits of a cometary hypothesis to account for the mass extinction of many life forms at the end of the Cretaceous period, there are striking relationships to be found in the geological record between mass extinction phases and changes in sea-level. What price now the Lyell and Darwin orthodoxies of 1950? Just as Velikovsky predicted, his astral catastrophism has entered the leftiest halls of science - through their back doors ...
147. Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VII No. 4 (Summer 1982) "Evolution, Extinction, and Catastrophism" Home | Issue Contents Forum Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger To the Editor of KRONOS: May one whose name was mentioned several times in a letter to your journal,(1 ) about the Frozen Mammoth Controversy, reply to the points made in that letter? [Leroy] Ellenberger remains unconvinced that mammoths were able to tolerate extreme cold, and his argument rests heavily on Neuville's observation that the skin of these creatures lacked certain "oil-glands" and on John White's sweeping statement that such glands are possessed by every extant arctic animal.(2 ) The ...
148. Geomagnetic Effects of an Earthwide Event in 2300BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... relative rotation rate of the Earth's crust and mantle sufficiently to disrupt the convective cells that produce the dynamo. The result would be a rapid reduction and rebuilding of the dynamo, producing the reversal or excursion. They postulated an impact from a large asteroid as causing the colder climate and presented correlations of impacts in the past with reversals, mass extinctions and microtectites. They also felt that volcanic eruptions could be considered to be causal agents for a geomagnetic reversal or excursion. A number of other investigators have found correlations between geomagnetic reversals and faunal extinction [10]. None of them have been able to explain how the change in geomagnetic field would be able to directly cause the extinctions ...
149. Collapsing Tests of Time [Books] [de Grazia books]
... feet of Wyoming shale pirouhetted among many layers of annual varves [17]; a "4000 year-old" log ensconced in a "billion year-old iron deposit of Labrador;"[18] a fossil 80-foot skeleton whale poised upright amidst some "million years" of diatomaceous (organic) deposits [19]; a fossilized set of startled extinct "bullheads" in English lower Old Redstone marking millions of years [20]; a 100-foot diameter boulder nestling in a large pure clay deposit in Timor [21]; a house-high muck of smashed bones in Alaska [22]; human bones and sophisticated artifacts amidst extinct animal remains and Tertiary fauna under California lava [23] ...
150. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... burial and preservation, or even of tidal waves depositing the remains en masse. ALVAREZ THEORY GAINS SUPPORT - SCIENCE 209 22/8 /80, p.921-3 NATURE 288 18-25/12/80, p.651-6 SCIENCE 210 31/10/80, p.514-7 We have reported the renewed interest in the cause of the extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous Period (when the dinosaurs died off) in WORKSHOP 2:4 and successive issues since. One theory seems to be gaining widespread support, the catastrophist ideas of Alvarez et al that 65 million years ago Earth was struck by a giant meteor/asteroid. In SCIENCE 22/8 /80 there ...
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