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169 pages of results. 931. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Both historians and anthropologists were able to point to a rich variety of catastrophe legends found throughout the world. For more than 2500 years these ancient traditions were generally viewed as historical. Not only did all the famous scholars of antiquity write about these natural disasters but, moreover, during the 18th and 19th century the newly established science of geology gave rise to findings and strata which clearly seemed to testify to major natural upheavals. As a consequence, scientists of Europe's enlightenment (among others Vico, Boulanger, Whiston, Cuvier) related the origins of ancient customs and rituals to these past cataclysms. Vico and Boulanger accepted the ancient belief that the Earth had undergone many natural disasters ...
932. Late Paleozoic Tornadoes and Synsedimentary Brecciation of Chert Nodules [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... From: Catastrophist Geology Year 3 No. 2 (Dec 1978) Home | Issue Contents Late Paleozoic Tornadoes and Synsedimentary Brecciation of Chert Nodules Albert V.Carozzi and Murry S.Gerber Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, USA. Fig. 1. Location map of investigated locality (a ). Abstract A well-exposed section of crinoidal calcarenites of the Lower Burlington near Hannibal, Missouri, USA, displays an unusual occurrence of chert nodules penecontemporaneously brecciated by a short-lived and localized high-energy event interpreted as the touch-down of a tornado system. This example of tempestite demonstrates the syngenetic generation of completely indurated and fragile chert nodules within an unconsolidated carbonate sediment and stresses the ...
933. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , and beautiful. Hesiod, reciting this profound truth, goes on to describe how the muses work, reminding us of a combined team for domestic propaganda and psychological warfare. As a result, all the arts and sciences have been manipulated by the muses. What we know of the catastrophes must come from a "natural history" - geology, biology, physics and astronomy-and a politics, philosophy, and theology that have been censored by the Muses. Additionally, we must obtain our historical material from myth, song, dances, and drama that are similarly screened. It is well to insist upon this premise, whether we come to the problem from an acquaintanceship ...
934. The Ten Points Of Sagan [Journals] [Kronos]
... the geomagnetic field, the work done by the originator of paleomagnetic studies, G. Folgheraiter, on Attic and Etruscan vases, indicates a reversal in the eighth century before the present era (P . L. Mercanton, in Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles [Quatrieme Periode, Tome XXIII, Geneva, 19071). IV. Terrestrial Geology and Lunar Craters . Concluding this point, Sagan asks where is the geological evidence of wholesale transgressions of the oceans and seas; "and what of the archaeological and paleontological evidence? Where are the extensive faunal extinctions due to such floods?" The evidence was cited by me on 300 pages of Earth in Upheaval, a book the ...
935. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions [Journals] [SIS Review]
... be later developments [34]. If, however, the freezing process began at the base of the permafrost formation, an explanation for the unending maintenance of such low temperatures becomes conceivable, since, quite obviously, the formation as a whole was everywhere accumulated from the bottom up, and, on the basis of its aqueous deposition, geologically very rapidly. A deep lying element able to instantaneously deep-freeze the lowest layers of the formation would have no difficulty in similarly refrigerating all subsequent levels as they were physically deposited. As the depositional process was swift, so too was refrigeration of the entire formation. A process like that just proposed accounts for the otherwise perplexing discoveries of upright ...
... the air and prevents putrefaction. In the ages before the stationary period', and in the long ages when there is no satellite, no fossils are lastingly embedded. Hence the puzzling missing links' (long successions of links, indeed!), hence the utterly inexplicable lacunae in the otherwise so faithful records of the rocks. Further geological implications of Hoerbiger's theory must be reserved for a special work. Strictly speaking, of course, the phase of the one-day month' should only be a very short one. It will be much longer than one might expect, for the following reasons. Before the stationary period' the Moon had slowed up the Earth's rotation, as ...
937. Compendium [Journals] [Pensee]
... the scientific and scholarly communities. The occasion was a "Velikovsky Symposium" --a gathering of over 50 "invited scholars" and 200 observers, co-sponsored by Lewis and Clark College and the Student Academic Freedom Forum (publishers of Pensée). The conclave sought to probe the implications of Velikovsky's radical deviation from accepted views in physics, astronomy, geology, history, and mythology. Observing in his opening remarks that few other men had made such "giant leaps, from the proven to the provable to the probable," Lewis and Clark's President John Howard defined the symposium's objective by challenging those present to grapple with the hard evidences bearing on Velikovksy's views. For three days, from ...
938. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... Velikovsky would no doubt have made much of these lines if he had seen them. The poet does not say that all these things happened simultaneously on the day of the eclipse, of course. The references to lightning and to streams bubbling over indicate a period of heavy rains, but do not sound especially alarming in themselves. But the geological references are another matter. There is a secondary level of meaning here- some men were rising to high rank and wealth while others fell to a lower station- but there is no doubt that the poet was talking about real geological processes. The key question is whether a sudden reversal of high and low places were actually witnessed. ...
... . With the demise of Pensee coinciding with the birth of its successors, many Velikovskians sought to infiltrate other organizations. A few, including anthropologist Roger W. Wescott, physicist H. C. Dudley, and Dutch chemist G.W . van Oosterhout managed to place themselves on the advisory board of Johan Kloosterman's short-lived journal devoted to Catastrophist Geology, where they were joined by other luminaries such as astronomer V. Azel Firsoff and mathematician Rene Thom. Other establishment non-uniformitarians such as Derek V. Ager professed ideological support for "neocatastrophism" (as he called his particular hypothesis to distinguish it from "the ideas of the Noachian deluge people"), but expressed "strong doubts ...
940. Whence Homo? [Journals] [Aeon]
... of two varieties. The larger (A . boisei) is characterized by extremely massive chewing teeth. It is conventionally dated between 2.0 and 1.4 million years BP. There is no consensus on whether they were separate species. (7 ) The smaller and lighter gracile forms (A . africanus) appear earlier in the geological record, dated to 3.0 million years BP. A still earlier and smaller form (A . afarensis) is dated to 3.77 million years BP. (8 ) The uncertainty concerning the evolutionary role of Australopithecus is widely recognized: "There have been many interpretations of the role of the Australopiths in hominid evolution and ...
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