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55 pages of results. 521. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... operation of some periodic astronomical agent. Missing from the spate of popular accounts of these issues is any comprehensive evaluation of the record of great extinctions that is being read from rocks and fossils. Extinction is designed to fill this void." His stance is revealed right at the beginning. "In part, the fervent new efforts of paleontologists ... crises in the history of life are documented and discussed in a lucid, lively, fashion. The illustrations, many in colour, are excellent, a tribute to the art direction of Lisa Douglis. Although Stanley again restricts the use of the term catastrophism' to its earlier, supernatural meaning, he is not blind to the fact that ...
522. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... continental crust is thinned or ruptured by stretching, the underlying mantle rises into a region of reduced pressure, where it undergoes decompression melting. Laboratory experiments on the melting of rocks led to the conclusion that the amount of melt produced by mantle decompression increased dramatically with a small increase in the temperature of the mantle. There are certain regions on ... the eruption of Thera in the 17th century BC. This date is older than usually given by archaeologists but now, P. P. Betancourt of the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, is stating the archaeological case for a 17th century Thera eruption. In this he is having a ding-dong battle with establishment figures, and ...
523. Tiahuanaco and the Delug [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... principal part of the ruins, the gigantic stones are bluish-gray in color and appear to have been "machined," and they have a metallic ring when tapped by a rock. There is also a reddish "rust" or oxidation covering many of the stones. Many of these enormous stone blocks probably have not been moved since they fell ... toes or heels to make the calendar work, the sculpture- which indeed has a highly decorative aspect- was eventually declared generally to be nothing but an intricate piece of art. (See Arturo Posnansky and F. Buck.) Professor Schindler-Bellamy and the American astronomer Allen have nevertheless continued to insist the sculpture was a calendar, though one ...
524. Metallurgy and Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... because of the evidence provided by the work executed. The stones for pyramids were cut in square blocks during the Old Kingdom-copper or bronze tools would not have cut the limestone rock. Sarcophagi of granite with carved sharp corners of perfect angles and knife-like edges and plumb-straight lines, sculptures with finely cut lines of eyelids and lips dating from the Fourth ... much beating makes it brittle. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, is much harder than copper. The manufacture of alloys marks a definite progress in the metallurgic art; it is an advanced stage by comparison with that when only extraction from ore and hammering into shape were known. Copper in alloy with zinc is called brass. ...
525. The Genesis of Israel and Egypt by Emmett Sweeney [Journals] [SIS Review]
... leaked in advance to test public reaction. His bold' ideas and suggested historical revisions have certainly landed him in hot water with a number of his revisionist colleagues. Many rocks have been hurled at him in the form of rebuttals citing monumental, archaeological and textual evidence, by scholars in attempts to derail him, but his latest work shows ... later. Drawing on the evidence of Dayton and Khnumibre's genealogy, which gives 24 generations back to Imhotep, he dates Djoser to c. 930BC. After noting that the art, culture and general political situation are similar in all three Intermediate Periods, he concludes that the three IPs are one and the same, caused by the same upheaval ...
526. The Heavenly Host [Books] [de Grazia books]
... prophets, and so on to many more thousands of the divine and semi-divine. Then, further, the products of their work: "devil's hole," "angel rock," "Mount Zeus," "Meteora," and so on through a world whose geography - that was once worked upon by the gods - belatedly and ... scientists) to question the nature of the god. However, as with great contradictions-"God vs. Devil" - so with lesser contradictions - "god of arts vs. god of war" - the contradiction might be only apparent, the same supernatural being having apparently produced a variety of effects during his primary effective manifestations in ...
527. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians [Journals] [SIS Review]
... these offerings he returned to the Medicine Lodge where they were deposited. On the last day of the ceremony, they were thrown into the water from the top of the rocks. The next morning, Lone Man called out for all young men who had reached maturity during the last year. During Catlin's stay among the Mandans, about fifty ... would like to thank Leroy Ellenberger for drawing my attention to the article by Wayne May. References 1. Allen, DC, The Legend of Noah: Renaissance Rationalism in Arts, Sciences and Letters', Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1963. 2. Catlin, G, O-Kee-Pa. A Religious Ceremony and other Customs of the ...
528. The Cabots, the Lowells, and the Temperature of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... temperature of the entire body. For example, the algorithm would not be accurate where a molten fluid core communicates its heat by conduction only through a very thick billion-year old rock layer leading to the surface. One would not use the algorithm for terrestrial gradients. (d )The algorithm does not take into account other radiative; heat loads ... was expelled from his school .. ." Galois and The Theory of Groups, Opening Note, Evariste Galois, Lillian R. Lieber, Galois Institute of Mathematics and Art, 1956. "John Newlands, a consulting London chemist, formulated in 1865 what he called a law of octaves' according to which if the elements are arranged ...
529. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... since up to now theories have been modelled on the Solar System. In the standard picture of planet formation dust in a disc of gas surrounding a star gradually forms into rocks, which in turn become the core of planets which subsequently acquire gaseous atmospheres. However, over the past ten years more than one hundred extrasolar planets have been discovered ... Feb 5, 2003 "Wow. What was that?" Markus Zahn recalls saying as he watched the black drop of liquid suddenly morph into a design resembling Native American art. The professor of electrical engineering and computer science was watching a video created by Cory Lorenz, a senior in the same department. As a project last summer, ...
530. Krupp And Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... change in the alignment of the Earth's axis in space. Krupp's objections to these changes and reversals will be dealt with chronologically. (a ) Krupp states that paleomagnetism of rocks at the bottom of the Atlantic indicates that the last magnetic reversal took place about 30,000 years ago and that this invalidates Velikovsky's claim that reversals took place in ... To conclude this section on the demise of Thom's megalithic astronomy I quote a most considered opinion, that of Professor Glyn Daniel, on the most "recent state of the art" concerning megalithic science: "The astronomical purpose of Stonehenge and other stone rings was not seriously argued until after World War II, when Gerald S. Hawkins of ...
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