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... toll of two yards per annum. Towns, once of repute, such as Auburn, Hartburn, Hyde, and Owthorne, are buried beneath the waves. At Withernsea, around what is left of the pier, is a bed of peat occasionally seen at low tide, representing the site of an ancient lake. The remains of the extinct red deer have been found in it, and Hull Museum possesses an antler of a reindeer from the same deposit. (Thos. Sheppard, F.G .S ., in Geographical Rambles in East Yorkshire, p. 18.) Withernsea is interesting for its Drift traces in what Sheppard calls "strange striated pavement," ...
502. The End of a World (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... . They have been described as blocks of conglomerate' and are believed to have been carried into the Meseta by glaciers, but they are quite un-Andean in type, and appear, moreover to be partly vitrified on the outside. This latter fact is by some attributed to igneous' or volcanic' action, though the nearest volcanoes (now extinct) are scores of miles distant. We may, with much more likelihood, regard them as cosmic missiles, blocks of material from the topmost crust of the former Satellite's mineral body which had plunged into the waters of the girdle-tide, sunk to the bottom, and settled in the mud there. After this cosmic uproar had been going ...
503. Ice Cores and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Tambora caused world wide climatic problems and caused the year without a summer' when corn and other crops failed to ripen in North America. All these eruptions are clearly visible in the ice cores and in the tree rings of the following year. On the subject of meteorites or comets as envisaged by Velikovsky it is now quite clear that the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was due to an enormous impact which threw up enough dust to prevent the growth of vegetation for a few years and so the animals died of starvation - man surviving as a rat-like animal by eating rotten vegetation and the crocodile surviving on fish [12]. The ice cores contain evidence for every ...
504. A Failed Excursion to the Caves of Aquitaine [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the same proportions. La Cluna abri-cave contains a one-meter level of Mousterian culture stuffed with bones of different species, including large mammals. Mousterian sites often end with blocks of animal and human bones mélangés. Magdalenian sites were usually smashed up sooner or later by seismic disturbances, or so it is believed. A scholar present told of the extinct volcano, now Laacher See, 80 km South of Bonn. It lacks cone or crater lip. Over 100 extinct eruptive sources of same type are found in the same region. Laacher is said to have exploded during the Allerit Period, around 11,000 B.P . Deep tufa is scattered around and to the East as ...
505. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and each important modification in the whole series of these beings is a step towards the definitive term of the development of organic life. ' [3 : p. 127] Right up to his death in 1873, the views of Agassiz remained consistent with idealist philosophy. He was also a catastrophist, believing that life on Earth had become extinct on many occasions, to be replaced by more advanced forms [3 : p. 128; 18: p. 16]. In 1860 he wrote that Darwin's theory of evolution was a scientific mistake, untrue in its facts, unscientific in its methods, and mischievous in its tendency' [18: pp. 8-9]. ...
506. The Trouble With Aztex [Journals] [Kronos]
... ) Van Flandern claims that "the blast ended a period of very warm weather that had continued uninterrupted for 100 million years; the earth would now enter an alternating series of ice ages and mild periods."(87) Velikovsky was of the opinion that the influx of cosmic rays from the Saturnian outburst caused massive mutations, with catastrophic extinctions and the appearance of new life forms.(88) Van Flandern writes that "the connection between man and the explosion may have been passive: extra cosmic radiation reaching Earth may have speeded up evolution, or some natural enemy of the primates may have been killed off".(89) David Talbott has concluded that the Saturnian ...
507. Ice Cores and Common Sense (Part II) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... The proponents of catastrophe by cometary impact are resented, largely because their catastrophism is not robust enough to turn the solar system inside out every few thousand years. An anonymous editor of SIS Workshop expressed it this way: The now acceptable geological catastrophes are dated in millions of years- not thousands. . . . [I ]mpact and extinction events may occur on Earth; but major cosmic catastrophes, such as changes of Earth's tilt, rotation or orbit or the addition or subtraction of large bodies within the Solar System are as remote from consideration as they ever were. The intellectual climate may now favour catastrophism- but only the whimper of Earthbound squibs, not the real bang ...
508. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with some reserve. 2. Numerous haloes were found unequivocally due to nuclides of polonium [3 ] which showed no traces of being decay products of uranium or thorium. These nuclides have short half-lives e.g 138 days for Po-210, 3 minutes for Po-218, 164 microseconds for Po-214. How such parentless polonium (which would have become extinct in a few years at most) could leave haloes in rocks which took millions of years to form remains unexplained. 3. Several haloes correspond to no known radioactive decay processes. Some exceed the largest that can be assigned to known alpha decay processes, leading to surmises that they might have arisen in the decay of superheavy elements not ...
509. Science, Technology and the Chronology of the Ancient World [Journals] [Aeon]
... second millennium BC." [16] However, there is, at present, no justification for such an unequivocal conclusion. Lynn E. Rose. (Photograph- 1996- by Dwardu Cardona.) As with Sothic dating, many revisionists question the basis of radiocarbon dating, and Ginenthal did so in 1997 in his book, The Extinction of the Mammoth. However, in Pillars of the Past he takes a somewhat different line. Although he accuses orthodox historians of double standards because they tend to ignore individual results that fall outside the expected range, he nevertheless joins them in believing that the radiocarbon dates of wood samples, taken as a whole, are meaningful. With ...
510. When The Comet Fell Ch.11 (The Riddle of the Earth) [Books]
... was once seven times higher than is now the case.* It is declared that the Mendips at the time of the Carboniferous Period underwent a change, and that the region was submerged 6,000 feet or more and solid rock washed or worn away.** There is reason to believe that Dartmoor with its vast granitic beds of extinct volcanoes at one time was elevated to heights infinitely greater than is the case now .+ This catastrophe took place at a time, moreover, not merely when man lived on the earth, but when the British Isles were populated by a race or races of men famous in the world's history, whose records and sufferings have fortunately been preserved ...
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