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49 pages of results. 331. Scientific Dating Problems: The Radiometric Dating Of Earth's Rocks [Journals] [SIS Review]
... for uranium he proposed radioactive decay as a yardstick for geological dating; measurements followed swiftly. In 1905 Strutt found a 2 billion year age for uranium-bearing rock, based on helium trapped inside it, and Boltwood dated 43 minerals between 400 and 2,300 million years old based on uranium/lead ratios. By 1911 Holmes had compared fossil-based stratigraphic ages with radiometric dates, assigning the Carboniferous, Devonian and Ordovician to 340, 370 and 430 million years ago respectively and the Precambrian to between 1 and 1 64 billion years ago. Methods then available for measuring the tiny amounts of parent and daughter elements present in rocks were slow and laborious and many results were inconsistent with anticipated ages ...
332. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... far removed from catastrophic theory: this poem may contain a good deal of useful information regarding the "World Ages" of the past. 22. An interesting sidelight on the orthodox scientist's unwillingness to postulate an identity between "proven" total occurrences and theoretical universal catastrophes can be found in D.V . Ager, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record (London, 1973): "Within the sludge there is a cigar black horizon, only an inch or so thick, which has been recognized all over southern Britain. The black colouration is due to charcoal fragments from burnt wood. In fact, at one stage in this study our thoughts ran on catastrophism of a biblical ...
333. Uniformitarian Or Catastrophist? Ice Age Theory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... because it is almost impossible to objectively test the former. Because of the many anomalies that have cropped up, some scientists have already opted for a neo-catastrophism that allows local catastrophes. The data from geological investigations are making strict uniformitarianism more and more difficult to believe .. .. [D . V. Ager, The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record, (London, 1973)] [The End of Michael J. Oard's Chapter] Therefore, the argument that the causes of the Ice Age are understood as a disproof of Velikovsky's theory is not only specious, but entirely ignorant. Modern research over the past thirty years shows that what Velikovsky's critics presented to support their uniformitarian ...
334. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of the world's leading climatologists concluded from the evidence that the mammoths did live well into post-glacial times just as Velikovsky suggests. Because these finding of forest trees were so contradictory to what was expected, it was argued by Vaskovskiy that "It seems to me that the identification of spruce wood in the Tiksi peat bogs was erroneous or that its stratigraphic position was determined incorrectly.63 In order to explain the undeniable presence of large white birches and willows, as well as larches which also grow today far to the south, Vaskovskiy further suggests they only "pushed lsorthward from their present limit during one of the moments in postglacial history."64 But this means northern Siberia had for ...
335. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . It was argued that in global catastrophes of such dimensions no stalactites would have remained unbroken, but within one year after the atomic explosion, stalactites grew in the Gnome cavern, New Mexico: All nature's processes have been speeded up a billionfold. '[ 51] Claude F. A. Schaeffer of College de France, in his Stratigraphie Comparée [52] on which he worked not knowing of my simultaneous efforts, came to the conclusion that the Ancient East, as documented by every excavated place from Troy to the Caucasus, Persia, and Palestine-Syria, underwent immense natural paroxysms, unknown in modern annals of seismology; cultures were terminated, empires collapsed, trade ceased, ...
336. A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage [Journals] [SIS Review]
... J. Bimson Dr Bimson specialised in Hebrew chronology in the Department of Biblical Studies, Sheffield University, and is the author of "Redating the Exodus and Conquest", reviewed in our last issue. He has contributed earlier articles to the S.I .S . Review in this area, and is currently continuing his research into the stratigraphy and chronology of ancient Palestine. In an objective appraisal of Egyptian chronology, new foundations must be sought which do not rely on "Sothic" dating. Dr Bimson shows how these can be supplied by synchronisms with biblical history, and proposes a chronology for the Middle Kingdom of Egypt which provides support for Velikovsky's view that this was the ...
337. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... continued into the 19th Dynasty at which time it would have been incorporated into Pi-Ramesse, but it is probably more acceptable to argue for a decline or abandonment in the mid-to late-18th Dynasty. Although the Hyksos leadership were driven out, most of the Asiatic workforce probably remained as is evidenced by continued foreign customs and pottery by with increasing Egyptianisation. Stratigraphically Daba just fades out without an obvious destruction level (Bietak 1991, p. 47). The last MB' stratum with housing is D/2 and this has formerly been taken as the final Hyksos level. On the theory proposed here, D/2 would be well into the 18th Dynasty and the final Hyksos stratum would ...
338. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber (Second Installment) [Journals] [Kronos]
... and not enough from the mid-twentieth century. Each new generation of scholars tends to flatter itself regarding its supposed breakthroughs. But the fact is that very little has fundamentally changed during the past one hundred years in the way scholars treat antiquity: the conventional chronology is still adhered to by the vast majority of today's authors; and the archaeological, stratigraphical, monumental, and literary evidence against that conventional chronology is swept under the rug today even more carefully than it was two or three generations ago. Sometimes, in fact, it is necessary to turn to older sources in order to find candid reports and honest discussions of discoveries whose embarrassing nature had not yet been fully realized. Once ...
339. Carbon 14 Dates and Velikovsky's Revision of Ancient History [Journals] [Pensee]
... thus derived directly from Egyptian ones. Once dates have been assigned to Greek material, exports of that material from Greece to other lands in turn furnish absolute dates to the places and strata in which they are encountered. This is especially true of the Mycenaean pottery of Greece which is quite distinctive and whose sequence has been established by experts noting stratigraphy of the finds and changes in shape and decoration. The absolute dates assigned to the various pottery phases depend on Egyptian chronology (2 ). When this pottery is found in Greece, in Near Eastern contexts, or in the West, it furnishes the absolute dates it acquired from Egypt. A system has thus been set up for ...
340. The Greek Colonisation Movement - When and Why? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the collapse of Mycenaean culture and the Archaic revival was relatively short, I now propose to consider what effect such a reduction in the chronology would have on the causes of Greek expansion in the Mediterranean. At the same time I will endeavour to give a brief summary of the archaeological evidence for continuity of occupation between the Bronze and Iron Age stratigraphy found at the principal colonisation sites under discussion. This will hopefully show that there are good reasons to suggest that the colonisation movement began with Homer's Achaeans and that the subsequent Archaic expansion directly followed the earlier founding of cities on the coasts of Sicily, Italy, Anatolia and the Levant by the Achaeans, thus avoiding the requirement of a ...
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