The war of the papers is well under way and Graham Hancock thinks that the pro side has pretty completely won the battle. Can you imagine just how easy it is going to be for them to swallow the idea that the impact was targeted on the pole in order to trigger a move in the crust? It took me a long time to get there and is inescapable. We also now have dates for the earlier crustal shift as well which was not deliberate but showed both the way and the need as well.
What this all means is that the event is on the way to general acceptance by just about everyone. I recall coming to the conclusion that certain types of ore bodies form on the Ocean floor near volcanic activity and as an integral part. This was the summer of 1976, a good couple of years before the first fumaroles and black smokers were identified.
It really does take this long for these ideas to be accepted and often several have to reach the same conclusion from different data sets..
THE FINGERPRINT OF A GLOBAL CATACLYSM 12,800 YEARS AGO
https://www.facebook.com/GrahamHancockDotCom/posts/943918492303310:0
The graphic shows the vast swathe of our planet that geologists call
the Younger Dryas Boundary Field. Across this huge "fingerprint"
spanning North America, Central America, parts of South America and most
of Europe, the tell-tale traces of multiple impacts by the fragments of
a giant comet have been found. Some of these fragments, were TWO
KILOMETRES or more in diameter and they hit the earth like a blast from a
cosmic scatter-gun around 12,800 years ago. This was near the end of
the last Ice Age, from which our world had been emerging into a pleasant
warming phase, but the impacts set in train a kind of "nuclear winter"
and plunged the planet back into a period of deep cold and darkness that
lasted until around 11,500 years ago. It is this period of extreme cold
that is referred to as the Younger Dryas (after a characteristic Alpine
tundra wildflower, Dryas octopetala) but it is only now, with
conclusive evidence of the comet impact, that we can be sure what caused
it. For the past seven years academics have been involved in such an
intense dispute about whether or not a comet impact actually occurred
12,800 years ago that the implications of what it might have meant for
the story of civilisation have not yet been considered at all. But every
attempt to refute the impact evidence has in turn been refuted and the
case for the Younger Dryas comet is now so compelling that it is time to
widen the debate. It is clear now that some of the largest fragments of
the comet hit the North American ice cap, which was still a mile deep
12,800 years ago, and caused cataclysmic flooding (I had the opportunity
to explore some of the extraordinary effects of this on the ground in
September 2014 when I drove from Portland, Oregon, to Minneapolis,
Minnesota, with catastrophist researcher Randall Carlson).
Simultaneously other large fragments hit the northern European ice cap
with the same cataclysmic effects. The result was a global disaster that
lasted for 1,300 years. It is, I believe, the "smoking gun" that made
us a species with amnesia and wiped out almost all traces of a former
high civilisation of prehistoric antiquity. But there were survivors,
who preserved at least some of the knowledge of the civilisation that
had been destroyed with the intention of transmitting it to future
generations, so it is not an accident that the first traces of the
re-emergence of civilisation, in the form of the earliest known
megalithic architecture and the re-promulgation of agricultural skills,
occur at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey 11,500 years ago -- a date that
coincides exactly with the end of the Younger Dryas and the return to a
more congenial global environment. Everything we have been taught about
the origins of civilisation occurs AFTER 11,500 years ago -- in other
words AFTER the radical punctuation mark of the Younger Dryas. It is
what happened before that we desperately need to recover. These are
amongst the mysteries that I am exploring in "Magicians of the Gods",
the book that I have been researching for the past three years and am
now in the midst of writing.
Graphic from Kinzie, Firestone,
Kennett et al. "Nanodiamond-Rich Layer across Three Continents
Consistent with Major Cosmic Impact at 12,800 Cal BP", The Journal of
Geology, 2014, volume 122, p. 475–506.
Additional comment:
In
response to Tim Lazenby: Hi Tim, I've got a pile of papers 3 feet deep
on the floor or my office with people like Meltzer trying to refute
Kennett, Firestone et.al, but the pro-comet scientists (if one may call
them that!) always come back with an utterly convincing refutation of
the attempted refutations (another pile of papers 3 ft deep) and there
is no doubt in my mind having carefully reviewed the lot of them,
including the latest (after May 214 papers) that they -- the pro-comet
scientists -- are winning (indeed I would say have won) the debate. As
to the 2-km diameter figure for the multiple impactors that's an
estimate, of course, and perhaps even a conservative one. I don't have
time to pull out all the references now, but you'll find this discussed
even in the PNAS paper you've linked to above ("Evidence for an
Extraterrestrial Impact 12,900 years ago...) -- see under heading
"Nature of the Event" near the end of that article where at least one
impactor of up to 4 kms is considered possible plus "multiple 2-km
objects" striking the 2-km-thick Laurentide ice sheet. Enjoy Durham by
the way. That's where I did my degree, in Sociology, many years ago. I
graduated in 1973. My how the years have flown!! :)
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