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33 pages of results. 111. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... describes. This is a commonplace situation where the supposed evidence for a world-shattering catastrophe is a vague shadow of what would be expected and is capable of being readily explained by other less extravagant processes. The Pleistocene extinctions and climactic changes do not require an inversion and neither does the draining of Lakes Missoula and Bonneville. Regarding the extinctions of the mammoths and other mega-fauna, I withdraw my remarks in KRONOS VII:4 (1982), pp. 66-83, in favor of William White's rejoinder in the three issues of KRONOS XI (1985-6). I consider it significant that the Greenland ice does not show any sign of the titanic conflagration, described by Sanderson in 1960, that ...
112. Buried Forests [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , hickory and walnut in Stratum Ila argues against boreal forest or tundra conditions occurring anywhere near the site when the earliest strata were forming. All the plant species found in the excavation are found in the area today.182 The timeline, not based on radiocarbon, but only on stratigraphy, shows that, during the earliest period, when mammoths roamed North America, the forests that grew in Pennsylvania were of hardwood, temperate, oak, and similar trees. After that, many more pine trees grew in the forest and then, as Velikovsky claims, because America moved south while Europe and Siberia shifted north, the forest became oak and similar trees. Because Europe and Asia ...
113. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as going out radially from the ice sheet depression zones or shields". the physical chemistry of oil is better accounted for by this model than by any uniformitarian theory anomalous pressures and pressure gradients are common in oil wells; the rock permeabilities are such that these could not develop gradually, or survive for more than a short time Fossils and Mammoths A good case (similar to Velikovsky's) is made for a catastrophic explanation of fossils. Fossil wood specimens recovered from Pre-Cambrian deposits in an iron ore mine varied from bright, modern appearing wood, through darkened (some changed by heat) to typical fossilised wood, according to Cook, and showed radiocarbon ages of 4,000 years ...
114. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ?Science Frontiers No. 115, May-Jun 97, p. 3 The methane burps from gas hydrate reservoirs mentioned in Monitor in C&CR 1997:1 could be of world wide significance. Apparently the reservoirs are truly colossal and if a meteorite hit one the amount of methane which would be released could change the world's climate. A Mammoth catastrophe National Geographic, August 1997, geographica About 11,300 years ago large numbers of animals including horses, camelids, deer, birds, fish and turtles, and at least seven mammoths, were suddenly engulfed by mud or ash from a volcanic eruption in a valley in Mexico. Some of the mammoth bones appear to bear marks ...
115. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... .29-32 There have been many mass extinctions in the history of Earth, but the most recent is unique in that only large, terrestrial mammals disappeared. 30,000 years ago many huge strange animals roamed the continents; but by 11,000 years ago the ground sloth, mastodon and sabre-tooth cat of America, the woolly rhinoceros, mammoth and giant deer of Eurasia, and the giant kangaroo and rhinoceros-sized "wombat" of Australia (among many others) had all been wiped out. Only the large mammals of Africa survived, such as the rhinoceros, elephant and hippopotamus. There are two main theories as to the cause of these extinctions, but both have drawbacks. ...
116. Uniformitarian Or Catastrophist? Ice Age Theory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... a gradual one. There are a few fundamental pieces of evidence that lead just to that conclusion. The first phenomenon is that of dust found in the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. What Velikovsky suggested is that dust in the Earth's atmosphere over the arctic regions cooled these areas so rapidly that the temperature there fell dramatically to freeze the mammoths. This is similar to the theory of Nuclear Winter proposed by Carl Sagan, et al, of Cornell University. Velikovsky maintains that all or nearly all the Earth's volcanos erupted spewing millions of tons of ash and smoke which blocked sunlight from reaching the surface. In addition, dust from the comet-planet Venus and its train of debris would ...
117. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... in quality". However, his defence rests on the idea that "certain morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits should be superior a priori as designs for living in new environments. These traits confer fitness by an engineer's criterion of good design, not by the empirical fact of their survival and spread. It got colder before the woolly mammoth evolved its shaggy coat." Gould hence redefines "fitness" as "the ability . . . to survive in new environments", and has not really got to the heart of this Darwinian paradox. The choice as an illustration of the mammoth, a very "fit" creature conspicuous for its non-survival, is a bad mistake ...
118. Forum [Journals] [Pensee]
... ). In order to counter any possible objections to their radiocarbon dates in relation to man, Irving and Harington rejected as improbable the likelihood that an implement could have been made "10,000 years ago from a bone that was then 17,000 years old" and supported their reasoning by pointing out that "two large fragments of mammoth radius and long bone are considered to be artifacts because .. . they show evidence of having been fractured by heavy blows when fresh; such blows in our judgment could only have been delivered by man" (2 ). The two scientists further maintain that one of the implements, a caribou bone fresher, "is evidence for ...
119. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... species finally died out there. It seems that around 11,000 years ago, the temperature in Ireland dropped from temperate to glacial in around 100 years and the subsequently poor forage meant the elk simply could not obtain sufficient minerals to counteract the enormous drain due to antler formation. Could there possibly be any connection with the extinction of the mammoths and other mega-fauna? Prehistoric Chinese Floods New Scientist 27.5 .00, p. 21 China's Yellow River periodically gives rise to catastrophic floods. In 1843 a cataclysmic flood was the worst in 2,400 years of recorded history, but sedimentary records indicate that there were 4 even greater ones between 6,000 and 8, ...
120. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in quality". However, his defence rests on the idea that "certain morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits should be superior a priori as designs for living in new environments. These traits confer fitness by an engineer's criterion of good design, not by the empirical fact of their survival and spread. It got colder before the woolly mammoth evolved its shaggy coat." Gould hence redefines "fitness" as "the ability .. . to survive in new environments", and has not really got to the heart of this Darwinian paradox. The choice as an illustration of the mammoth, a very "fit" creature conspicuous for its non-survival, is a bad mistake ...
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