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60 pages of results. 531. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Their biggest concession is their thinking in regard to the conclusion of the Cretaceous epoch. Alvarez et al. have devoted much effort to the elucidation of the real implications of increased iridium content of a few inches of clay closing the Cretaceous and associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs. Whipple believes that the impact by an asteroid or large meteor with one of the oceans of Earth may have summoned the demise of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is an implicit conclusion that the hundred or more feet of chalk deposited immediately below the Cretaceous boundary clay arose in a standard uniformitarian manner requiring a supposed time-scale of tens of millions of years. Is not the fracture of so many bones by a ...
532. The Cautious Revolutionary [Journals] [SIS Review]
... evidence suggests to them that the dinosaur extinctions on land took place some 700,000 years later than the marine extinctions which are associated with the high iridium levels; they also consider that this iridium is more likely to be of volcanic rather than of cosmic origin [18,19]. Halstead has written, "The asteroid or giant meteor explanation has the great popular appeal of high drama and curiously coincided with the release of a disaster' film on the same theme! Such theories are certainly an advance on invoking the wrath of a Deity but not very much." [18] In contrast, the Canadian dinosaur expert, Dale Russell, is quite prepared to accept ...
533. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , and earthquake lights - all these things can accompany and precede the earthquake. Reports of earthquake lights, in particular, used to be greeted by scientists with scepticism. As Chi-Yu King writes for Nature, some were discounted because they came from "untrained observers", some were thought to be unreal, and some caused by lightning, meteors, and arcing power lines. But now the documentation of these earthquake-related electromagnetic emissions is such that they ". .. must seriously be considered". One such recent documentation is in a paper by Gokhberg et al. (Journal of Geophysical Research 87, 7824) which tells of anomalously high electromagnetic emissions prior to earthquakes. These ...
534. From Myth to a Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the past that first led nations to project images of the lost epoch onto their surroundings. Seeking to sanctify their own habitation and their own surroundings with the glow of the great prototype or Prime Example, they projected images of the gods onto every natural phenomenon. Mountains, rivers, lakes, rainbows, lightning and thunder, constellations, meteors, comets, even our Sun and Moon- all received their names and assigned mythical attributes from the more unified forms arising in the age of the gods. Confusion through Localization Now how long do you think this process could go on before the symbol began to get confused with the thing symbolized? How long before the local mount Zion ...
535. Formation of Chondritic Meteorites and the Solar System [Journals] [SIS Review]
... lightning within a solar nebula has been proposed as a plausible mechanism [28], but the argument betrays a lack of understanding of plasma discharges. The electric discharge theory does away with the problematic formation of bodies from a solar nebula and introduces a new evolutionary picture, with the birth of objects from the size of stars right down to meteors by electrical parturition. This is consistent with the fact that the non-volatile components of chondrites have approximately solar proportions. T. van Flandern has proposed the formation of comets, meteorites, asteroids and tektites from the explosion of a larger former planet in the Solar System [29] by some unknown mechanism. He shows how many anomalies in ...
536. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , where Moses "builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." Comet Swift-Tuttle source: ASTRONOMY August 1983, pp. 16-22 We can recommend this very interesting article telling of the probable link between a comet last seen in 1862 (named Swift-Tuttle after its co-discoverers) and the Perseid meteor shower which visits Earth each August. Much has been made of the probable past history of comet Encke and the fragments it has given rise to: similarly Swift-Tuttle is likely to have had an interesting history. Its orbital period is not known exactly, but it is thought to be about 120 years, and to be due back soon ...
537. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . J. Smit and A. J. T. Romein: A sequence of events across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary', Earth and Planetary Science Letters 74 (1985), pp. 155-170. 25. W. S. Wolbach, R. S. Lewis and E. Anders: Cretaceous extinctions: evidence for wildfires and search for meteoric material', Science 230 (1985), pp. 167-170. 26. J. Bourgeois, T. A. Hansen, P. L. Wiberg and E. G. Kauffman: A tsunami deposit at the C-T boundary in Texas', Science 241 (1988), pp. 567-570. 27. B. F ...
538. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to be answered. No one, today or ever, has seen a personal disaster with the cool eye of a scientist thousands of years from the scene. But the cool eye should not claim that the disaster did not occur - or that it happened in a way to conform to his daily newspaper accounts of earthquake, floods, and meteors. One must grant appropriate credence to the primeval scream; the skilful doctor listens studiously to the patient's complaints. The popular Revelation of John, Apostle of Jesus, is a magnificent mad vision of the destruction of the world. The Catholic Bible says that "the Apocalypse is a revelation of things that were, are and will be ...
... cosmic clouds moving in interplanetary space, which meeting the earth in its path, are precipitated upon its surface. We can scarcely conceive of matter anywhere without associating it with living forms. The outermost vapors of the annular system, which fell in the time of Noah, remained on high for unknown millions of years, receiving constant additions of meteoric and cosmic dust from without. As the gaseous envelope that now surrounds our earth contains living organisms, we must believe" the annular matter did also, and to a much greater degree. If Jupiter's belted system had long ago decended to the body of that planet, so that we could gaze upon the continents and seas as we ...
540. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 000 years) may cause variations in the shape and intensity of the current; he adds that sudden changes in rotation would produce radial changes in the currents [23]. Michelson argues that the energy required to interchange the Earth's magnetic poles is about that of a moderately strong geomagnetic storm resulting from an intense solar eruption [24]. Meteors have pronounced magnetic effects. Studies to this end by Jenkins, Gilmor, Campbell and Green are summarized by Corliss, and Dachille has also insisted upon the phenomenon [25]. Passing cometary trains exhibit strong electrical disturbances and can cause the same in transacting bodies as in the space plasma. A large meteoroid, whether impacting or passing ...
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