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1. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... fossil wood was slanted in relation to the plane, while the layers of sand, gravel, and wood above it were horizontal, it is safe to say that it was constructed artificially.... ' [Perhaps as a lean-to] "On examining the pieces of wood from the gat, which were beautifully preserved because of the ____permafrost, ' the explorer also came to the conclusion that they showed clearly preserved traces of chopping with stone axes...."3 In the Lena Valley in the heart of Siberia at the time of the mammoth have been found beavers and planks which can only come from well-wooded regions. This is further supported by research of the ...
2. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was cold enough to freeze the ground solid to bedrock? 2. What caused the chaotic formation of the wood hills'?, which run for miles across some of the New Siberian Islands and are accompanied by the frozen remains of countless non-Arctic animal species, such. as horse, American stag, antelope and tiger [15]? Permafrost However there is a much greater problem confronting these glacialists, the proponents of ' Ice Age' theory and those who specialise in Arctic research: PERMAFROST. The word Permafrost' - in Russian Vechnaya Merzlota - was coined in 1945 to distinguish the permanently frozen subsoil deposits comprising over 9,000,000 km (47%) of ...
3. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2005 (Sep 2005) Home | Issue Contents An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions Derek S. Allan As the primary intention of my previous survey of the Sibero-Alaskan ____permafrost' formation was to emphasise its apparent cataclysmic origin around 11,500 years ago, its remarkable geographical extent, the enigmatic character of its composition, and its locally enormous vertical depth [1 ], certain other related factors and problems were not perforce touched upon then. Six of these, now considered below, need to be satisfactorily accommodated if this great Arctic mystery is ever to be properly unravelled. Still others also exist, but are not ...
4. Has Science Got it Wrong? – Remarks on the Arctic [Journals] [SIS Review]
... destroyed them over huge geographical areas only shortly before it entombed their mutilated remnants within the Drift' itself. Such a scenario, or one very like it, is forced upon us when closer attention is paid to the relevant field evidence. The organic remains just spotlighted are broadly divisible into two main categories: those which occur in the frozen ____permafrost' deposits of Arctic Asia and North America (Fig. 1) and those present in the adjacent unfrozen Drift' beds of lower latitudes in those continents and Europe. Basically, both sets of deposits yield the same general faunas, although not unexpectedly sometimes with local variations. This picture is duplicated in the associated botanical record. The ...
5. Arctic Tundra Mammoth Steppe Or Velikovskian Poleshift? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... . Producing the toxins was effective but costly. "Even dead needles and leaves of these conservative plants are so toxic that decomposers leave them for decades until physical processes begin their breakdown. In a spruce forest or sedge meadow, this toxic plant litter accumulates, forming a thick spongy mat that insulates the soil and inhibits summer thaw. Gradually ____permafrost creeps upward until it lies just under the mat, summer thaw does not drive very deep. With deeper soils frozen, only shallow soil nutrients are available and nutrients from dead plants recycle slowly because of slow decomposition. Plants living in these conditions must be able to extract nutrients from a shallow, nutrient-poor zone, and for this reason ...
6. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... processes that had to gradually release tremendous amounts of old carbon into the atmosphere, which was returned to the soil and ground water over time and that had to have greatly affected the radiocarbon ages of all living organisms on Earth during the hipsithermal. The first two reservoirs are found in the arctic and near arctic regions in frozen ground, the ____permafrost. As Robert Jastrow and Malcolm H. Thompson explain, there is a... ". .. special property of the reactions that cause carbon dioxide to combine with rocks in the form of carbonates. The effectiveness of the these reactions in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere depends very strongly on the temperature of the rocks [ ...
7. Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... maintained that the skin of the woolly rhinoceros (a contemporary of the woolly mammoth and whose bones often accompany it in fossil assemblages) was not equipped as in its modern relatives? Possession of the requisite oil glands admits this animal to the arctic fraternity unopposed but re-imposes and reinforces the problem of extinction, since frozen rhinoceros carcasses occur in the ____permafrost coeval with mammoth. Much is made also of comparing the wool and hair coat of the mammoth with the fur of the tiger, a "tropical" creature. The tiger is a bad choice of example for it is a generalised predator, whose ecological niche is determined not by climate but by source of prey. Thus, tigers ...
8. The Problem Of The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... : One takes a mammoth... and places it on or beneath a steep south facing hillside. This should be done in the winter time in an area of the High Arctic where the ground is always frozen, not only at the surface (where it thaws in summer) but well down into the earth (which is called ____permafrost). For a first rate result, keep watch until the animal (which is assumed to be dead) has frozen through and through. If not, it may happen that wolves or lions... run away with the best pieces. "After this, things should work out. In spring the uppermost layer of earth ...
9. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . W. Ikin and D. A. Parry, have reported to us some of Adrian Berry's writing on the subject of elephants and mammoths. He wrote: "A vast amount of nonsense has been talked about the extinction of the mammoth. One British scientist' recently suggested, for example, that the discovery of dead mammoths in ____permafrost, with their flesh, and even their cells, intact, was evidence that they were overwhelmed by the sudden onset of an Ice Age - as if they couldn't simply migrate southwards when the climate turned cold!" Note the placing of the word scientist' in inverted commas, denigrating the status of a man daring to offer a ...
10. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 1 [Journals] [Pensee]
... had always plagued the riverbed theory, aside from that of providing water on the moon, was that, with one or two questionable exceptions, the imaginary lunar rivers had left no delta deposits or other evidence of outwash materials unloaded at their lower ends. Urey, seizing upon Thomas Gold's suggestion that the lunar maria might be underlain by a ____permafrost layer of "plastic ice" (18), argued that riverbeds carved in ice would yield detritus consisting mostly of ice, and such material would wash out at the foot of the stream and melt, evaporate, and eventually escape into space, leaving no evidence behind (19). But John A. O'Keefe, of NASA's ...
11. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... an excellent short article on the subject, relating the High Arctic finds to similar Antarctic evidence for the same time period, and we understand this is to be published shortly in Aeon (issue number 7). Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands lie within the Arctic Circle, on the same latitude as northern Greenland and are at present wastes of ____permafrost, with the only vegetation ground-hugging and dormant during the four months of winter darkness. Thick layers of sands, silts and coals, said to be from the early part of the Tertiary Period (i .e ., immediately following the extinction of the dinosaurs) have long been known from here and finds of fossil wood and stumps ...
12. Editor's Page [Journals] [Aeon]
... I have never really seen one. I love them because they seem to have been such noble-looking beasts. And if present-day elephants are anything to judge by, they probably were just as docile when not preyed upon. I was, therefore, elated to hear that one more of these magnificent behemoths had been discovered entirely intact in the rock-hard ____permafrost of Siberia's Taimyr peninsula. It was discovered by a Siberian family while herding reindeer in 1997. When scientists arrived on the scene to dig the furry giant out of its icy tomb, they were assailed by the fetid odor of elephant dung. The beast itself, however, was anything but pungent. Dick Mol, A Dutch scientist ...
13. The Extinction of the Mammoth by Charles Ginenthal (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... more evidence which he intends to incorporate in a sizeable addition to a future edition of the book. It should severely undermine the establishment position; their only defence will be not to read it. Jill Abery This essay is undoubtedly among the very best of many made attempting to solve the seemingly intractable problem of the frozen mammoths of the Alasko-Siberian ____permafrost. Future students of this mystery will be enormously indebted to Ginenthal for the impressive breadth of the material discussed and for so ably marshalling the multifarious sources with which it is documented. Virtually all aspects of the subject are investigated, often in unexpected detail. These range from the physiological peculiarities of living elephants and their nutritional requirements and how ...
14. Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Arctic Circle. But to their utter surprise, they [Dawson, West] also began to uncover the fossilized remains of tortoises and alligators, creatures that could only have existed in a frost-free climate.... ' [29] Previously, little vertebrate paleontology had been done in the High Arctic where many fossils are frozen in the ____permafrost, which is never more than 18 inches below the surface. Constant overturning and mixing of soil means extra reconstruction of fossil fragments and considerably less end product. From 1973 to 1986, paleontologists explored 5 sites on Ellesmere Island and one on Axel Heiberg Island. Ellesmere fossil locales are Makinson Inlet on the east coast; Baumann fjord, ...
15. Botanical Fantasies [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... it grows near "Needle-leaved forest," while in eastern Canada and the Maritime Provinces, it grows near "broad-leaved" and Needle-leaved forest.194 Only in the Aleutians does it grow on tundra. But even there we do find trees. But Borisov claims that there was no ice on Spitsbergen during the hipsithermal.195and that the "____permafrost which covers the Arctic Basin deteriorated greatly during the period of warming... in... Siberia melting [to]...a depth of 200-300 meters]. "196 Thus, Spitsbergen had no tundra conditions, the ____permafrost had The significance of the fact that E. Nigrum was flowering, growing berries with ripe ...
16. C&C Review 2001:1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 2001:1 Texts Home | SIS Review Home Chronology & Catastrophism Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 2001:2 News 2 Articles Arctic Anomalies 3 A review by Derek Allan of the strange geology of ____permafrost and the arctic regions. The Ring About The Earth At 2300 BC 8 Moe Mandelkehr develops his theory of a 2300BC catastrophe with an explanation of its cause The Valley of Colours 18 Nesta Caiger describes the discovery of a source of pigments used in Egyptian art. Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle 20 Irving Wolfe analyses the rituals of the Nazis and finds evidence of suppressed memories. The Role Of The Nile In Egyptian Chronology 26 Lynn ...
17. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not tally with what is found in Earth's northern regions? There are other instances in Indic lore which touch upon the same event but the above should suffice for now. If man was close enough to this planetary tornado to witness it, how was he not engulfed in its carnage? Why do we not find human remains in the northern ____permafrost? Man is an intelligent animal and would have known enough to stay in the safety zone outside the periphery of the vortex. Thus it was written in relation to Mount Meru, the golden mountain' which, like Mandara, was a stand-in for the axis mundi [177], that men cannot approach it. Dreadful beasts of ...
18. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... creature which cannot be shown to have existed earlier than the penultimate glaciation of Europe (240,000-200,000 B.P .) and which, along with other animal species, became extinct at the end of the geological division known as the Pleistocene.(6 ) The locality of their deep-frozen corpses is, of course, the ____permafrost zone of the present Arctic Circle.(7 ) In addressing the problem of the frozen mammoths, it may be considered legitimate to include other polar regions and other species and, indeed, frozen specimens other than Mammuthus primigenius as well as, perhaps, skeletal evidence of proven contemporaneity. It is not permissible, however, to include ...
19. The Animal that Changed the Course of World History: The Mammoth [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , stems of shrub willows; their analysis permitted the reconstruction of the East Siberian flora of that remote time. This proved to be a predomination of cereals and plants, shrub willows, and tundra birches. Some larches could be seen. The creek valley where the calf lost its life was swampy and abundant in sedges, and there was ____permafrost underneath. Now let us move to the foothills of the Carpathians. In 1907 an oil pit near the village of Starun was found containing remnants of an adult mammoth and plant life. This giant got himself caught in this trap some 10,000 years ago. At that time the climate of the Carpathian Mountains was colder than it ...
20. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Sir, The enclosed cutting from the SCOTSMAN, October 9, 1985, reports NASA's Ames Research Centre findings that "Mars once had a thicker atmosphere, substantial volcanic activity and enough water possibly to cover it with an ocean 30 to 300 feet deep." However, the scientists expect the water still to be there in the form of ____permafrost and ice deep beneath the surface. They say nothing about the missing atmosphere. Actually Mariner 4, in 1965, confirmed that Mars' surface pressure is less than one-hundredth that of Earth when only one-tenth less was expected, which means 90 per cent of the atmosphere is missing. Ralph E. Juergens, in a two-part paper " ...
21. Fossil cemeteries [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... only by a catastrophe which rapidly destroyed whole herds of them. .( .. . ) The Bolshoi Lyakhov Island, the southernmost of the Novosibirskiye Islands, is essentially a cemetery of mammoths. Mammoth tusks and sometimes whole corpses of mammoths and other mammals were buried in great numbers in the Quaternary sediments; they have been preserved by the ____permafrost of the soil. In the coastal slopes washed by the surf the tusks thaw out in summer and fall on to the beech; in the past they were annually gathered in by traders who came from the continent. These abundant remains of large animals on a relatively small island which was unable to provide food for them is accounted for ...
22. Obituary: Derek Scott Allan (1917-2000) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have been different. A final move to Hertfordshire, in his mid-70s, would have been the signal for most of us to retire gracefully but Derek became librarian of the local school and carried on writing on the age and deposition of the enigmatic Siberian and Alaskan muck-beds' - based largely upon his familiarity with specialist, difficult-to-access Russian literature on ____permafrost problems. In his final 12 months he was gratified to find contemporary researchers recording the fact that, on the basis of the latest field evidence, Greenland, during Eemian (Pleistocene) times, was ice-free - very much as he had long advocated from other considerations (K .H . Cuffey & S.J . Marshall. ...
23. Catastrophism and the Mammoths- III (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... such representatives of climatic phases are considered valuable in the attempted reconstruction of past climates from the faunal skeletal remains. If it is erroneous to regard Mammuthus primigenius as an arctic species, then this may give rise to inconsistencies in the interpretation of such faunal assemblages. Be that as it may, one must then account for the absense in the ____permafrost of frozen temperate species of animal in association with the mammoth, a point that I had earlier raised but, Cardona's howler apart, one which remains unanswered . 40,000+ YEARS OLD? I agree with Ellenberger in that the radiocarbon dating of frozen mammoth remains is a subject that is important enough to warrant renewed discussion. His ...
24. Cosmos & Chronos Symposium report [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... text and their translations- Venus and Mars paired with the verbs for destruction and obscuration, for example. Fred's (I didn't catch the gentleman's last name) presentation suggested placing the World Mountain on earth, at the pole. It reached high enough to expose the north pole to space. He said that this was the only explanation for ____permafrost. He dismissed the polar configuration as "impossible", then placed the earth on a large eliptical orbit which brought it close to all of the inner planets in turn (even Mercury.) Dwardu Cardona gave a paper similar to the one he printed on this forum about the history and development of the name of the comet associated ...
25. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - II (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... and when irreversible damage did occur, it was a consequence of too rapid re-warming rather than the initial cooling mechanism.(56) ONLY GIANTS PRESERVED? Two of the correspondents have disputed my observation, developed from Farrand, that "it is usually the giant mammals of the Pleistocene (woolly rhinoceros and mammoth) which are preserved in the ____permafrost .. . [when] at least equal representation by other animal species in a deep frozen state is to be expected". Ellenberger admits that the frozen cadavers of the smaller animals are not abundant and supplements the rneagre frozen Iynx, lemming, and hare (culled from a reference that I supplied) with finds of the bones
26. Poleshift [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... . It is almost certainly correct."128. On the basis of this evidence tall, thick trees cannot grow in the arctic. The established view is that tall trees did not grow there at the same time that the mammoth lived in the far northern regions. However, in 1943 Stephen Taber wrote to describe trees found in the ____permafrost of Alaska. "On Quartz Creek bones of mammoth and horse were found with the trunks of large spruce trees, one of which is said to be 5 feet in diameter and 80 feet long."129 Sanderson also points out that, "forty-foot tree trunks have been found in the muck of Siberian Islands.... ...
27. Thoth Vol IV, No. 2: Jan 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... writhing like a serpent in travail, it went berserk and overstepped the bounds within which it had been contained for ages. Taken unawares, beasts fell prone to it. Man, apparently, was just that much smarter. THE ONSLAUGHT OF ICE The penultimate question I wish to raise concerns the freezing of the . . . Arctic muck or ____permafrost. How did it all freeze? Where did the ice come from? . . . Is it traceable to the planet Saturn or Earth's primeval position in relation to Saturn? Can this demand also be met? This is an easy question to answer. The Greeks, for instance, had long associated . . . Saturn, with ...
28. The Flood [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... would survive before the bog became a mire of mud; therefore, if a tidal wave deposited whales on continents, they would have to be found in surface lakes, ponds and bogs, for example. However, whales would, more commonly, be found stranded on land. In Vestspitzbergen, Norway, a whale was discovered in the ____permafrost, a physical impossibility based on geological uniformitarianism. Permafrost is as hard as rock and will not allow a floating whale to enter it. D. L. Dineley and P. A. Garrett reported the following: The ice core of the moraine rises to about 20 feet above the high water mark and the dirt cover is probably ...
29. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... remarkably Yuma like, ' all of which indicates that the multitudes of torn animals and splintered forests date from a time not many thousands of years ago."51 William N. Irving and C.R . Harington in Science, report having found the jaw bone of a child perhaps eleven or twelve years old in the graveyard of the ____permafrost of the Yukon.52 Siberia In Siberia on the other side of the Arctic Ocean are found mass graveyards of mammoth bones by the millions upon millions as well as on the New Siberian Islands. "In the stomachs and between the teeth of the mammoths were found plants and grasses that do not grow now in northern Siberia. The ...
30. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... event, but in deference to time and space constraints, the above should suffice for now. One question that crops up here is this: If man had been close enough to this planetary tornado to witness the events, how is it that he was not himself engulfed in its carnage? Why do we not find human remains in the ____permafrost of the north? Man, however, is an intelligent animal and he would have known enough to stay within the safety zone outside the demarcated periphery of the vortex. Thus it was written in relation to Mount Meru, the "golden mountain" which, like Mandara, was a stand-in for the axis mundi, [169] ...
31. Petrofabric Analysis: An Unreliable Archaeological Tool [Journals] [Kronos]
... . Other work utilising petrofabric techniques was performed by J. S. Bibby himself and his co-worker, J. M. Ragg, on solifluction in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.(13) In regions of high latitude, or altitude, where the summer thaw only reaches down to a certain depth, the levels below are termed the ____permafrost. When thaw occurs, water cannot percolate down through this ____permafrost and the top soils may become saturated with water. On slopes greater than a few degrees, the water may sludge downhill carrying material which is eventually deposited. Bibby's and Ragg's work showed that in some cases the long axes of the deposited material were influenced strongly by the ...
32. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... moving ice would have erased all such evidence down to a considerable depth of rock, even in the absence of land thrusts, flood, wind and fire. Certainly humans retreated to warmer climates in the face of the icy tempests. Still, primates, proto-humans and homo sapiens lived among the animals whose remains have been found under ice and ____permafrost. Whether a long-term date (like two million years) or a short-term date such as I suggest here is adopted, these species existed before the ice and they may one day provide new fossil discoveries. There is an old map, called the Piri Reis map, that shows perhaps the coastline of the Antarctic continent as it would ...
33. Continuous Versus Discontinuous and Self-Perpetuating Versus Self-Terminating Processes [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... S ., 1935: Theory of heat conduction applied to geological problems. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 46/1 : 69-93. McLaren D.J . 1970: Presidential Address: time, life and boundaries. J. Paleo., 44/5 : 801-815. McVee C.V ., 1973: Permafrost considerations in land use planning management; Permafrost, second international conference, Nat. Acad. Sc., Washington D.C .: 146151. Morgenstern N.R ., 1967: Submarine slumping and the initiation of turbidity currents. Marine Geotechnique, F. Richards ed ., Univ. Illinois Press: 189-220. Nettleton L ...
34. Ice Core Evidence [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... is today. At the same time, a [2 to 2.5 C] rise in...the surface water [for the molluscs to live] and of the layer of air nearest [to] the ground...has been very well demonstrated by a number of independently conducted studies using different methods. The ____permafrost, which covers the Arctic Basin, greatly deteriorated during the period of its warming. Thus, in the north and northwest of Siberia, the melting reached a depth of [200 to 300 meters]. The mountain glaciers diminished considerably and, in some places, disappeared altogether. How did the climate react to the disappearance of ice ...
35. Buried Forests [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... time. Entire forests of such trees and others could not have been buried by floods, even from ice dammed continental glaciers during the Ice Age, since forests did not then exist in these regions. Furthermore, during the last interglacial, all the icecaps melted away and the temperature in the far north was so warm that it melted the ____permafrost down to great depth. Therefore, nearly all trees from the last interglacial period would have rotted away. The buried forests, to be discussed, could not have been buried gradually as the ice-sheet gradually advanced. As Butler and Hoyle pointed out above, based on Glen's Law, a mass of ice 6,560 feet high moving ...
36. Pole Shifts And The Arctic Ocean Ice Cover [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... how you manipulate data to produce contradictions and thoroughly inane results. To make this even clearer, let us see what really happens as we get to higher latitudes with a 1oF, 0.6oC rise in temperature. According to William K. Steven reporting in The New York Times about a temperature rise of this amount: "The regions ____permafrost... is thawing in Alaska's interior. Over thousands of miles big patches of forests are drowning and turning gray as the ground sinks under them and swamp water floods them... "About the magnitude of the warming there is little doubt. While the average surface temperature of the globe has risen over the last century by ...
37. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... the other hemisphere have been left with enough atmosphere to sustain and protect plant and animal life? There are other problems. The Ice Ages: To my understanding, no one can deny the ice ages, especially the last one. How, for instance, were the mammoths of Earth's northern regions- thousands of years old- covered with ____permafrost within hours of their death? Had these beasts been exposed to the elements for even a few days, they would have been subject to decay and scavenging. Yet the remains of these mammoths, including the one discovered in 1999, were perfectly preserved. Also, had these animals lived in a sunny Golden Age, why the need ...
38. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... SNC meteorites remains a serious objection to a planetary source for such meteorites." (38) How then did these meteorites come to be ejected and make their way to Earth? One proposal suggested that oblique impacts- upon ricocheting- could eject large fragments and accelerate them to escape velocity. Another model held that impacts on Mars would vaporize ____permafrost thereby providing additional acceleration to the ejecting fragments. For various reasons, (39) these models have since been abandoned. H. Melosh, an early critic of the idea that the SNCs could be Martian in origin, offered a model whereby it would be possible for planetary impacts to eject a requisite amount of near-surface material without significant ...
39. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that lit up the sky. ' GEOLOGY Evidence for Gold Science Frontiers No. 91, Jan-Feb 1994, p. 3 Thomas Gold's theory that life exists deep in the earth has been vindicated yet again with the discovery of high concentrations of hyperthermophilic bacteria in the fluids from 4 oil reservoirs from 3000 metres below the North Sea and below the ____permafrost in Alaska. The paper reporting the discovery was published in Nature so it comes as little surprise to find the authors trying to explain the presence of the bacteria as secondary contamination. Fast fossilization New Scientist 19.3 .94, p. 46 Scientists have replicated the mineralisation process that probably preserved the minute detail of fish fossils from ...
40. Scientific Dating Methods In Ruins [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... years ago, the disarranged radiocarbon dates found in the sediment were rearranged to support this assumption. These same dates could also have been rearranged based on other assumptions. To illustrate just how insidiously radiocarbon is manipulated to give established, expected results, William N. Irving and C. R. Harington tested a human child's jawbone found in the ____permafrost of Yukon muck. The date uncovered was so out of line with expectations that it posed a serious problem. One of the basic assumptions of American anthropologists is that mankind arrived across the Bering land bridge into the Americas no more than 12,000 years ago, or around the time the Ice Age is assumed to have ended. ...
41. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in its own right. Martian Water Confirmed New Scientist, 1.6 .02, p. 13, Scientific American, May 2002, p. 20 The discovery of hydrogen below the surface of Mars in large quantities around the south pole is interpreted as meaning that there is definitely water there. It would be frozen, as in ____permafrost on Earth, but there seems to be enough to fill a large lake. So far, measurements do not indicate a similar situation at the north pole. Additional evidence for water comes from images from the Mars orbital camera which suggest that water flooded a large channel system as recently as 10Myrs ago. Moons and Rings New Scientist, ...
42. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... This requires energy, and energy almost invariably ends up in the form of heat. That heat would then prevent the necessary cooling to form the additional ice. If it be argued that the Earth for some reason enters a simple cooling phase, then water will freeze in situ. The polar caps will he extended but only by a thinly-layered ____permafrost zone which would not yield massive glaciers. Displacement of the polar cap requires neither heating nor cooling, and this is in keeping with the general evidence that the Earth was not cooled overall during ice ages. Parkin (1976), for example, notes that the Sahara remained arid during the last ice age. The Sahara lies close ...
43. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... certain types of plants grow. Hubert H. Lamb was mentioned; his name has come up from time to time - has anyone at SIS looked at his work on climate in more detail? Trees in Siberia grew to be large, put on wide growth rings and sank their roots deep into the soil - impossible nowadays due to the ____permafrost and the short summer. In Greenland, trees as thick as a man's thigh were found standing 1000 ft above sea level. There is no discussion in the papers as to how these trees got there. In the highlands of the Southern Sahara, there are 3-4,000 year-old olive trees surviving in a pocket where there were once ...
44. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that the so-called rivers' could not have been formed by rain as on Earth but they still think of them as water carved, suggesting that they were formed by one-off floods of water bursting out of the ground. Others think the channels were formed when subterranean magma pushed rocks aside to make fault lines, at the same time melting the ____permafrost which then flowed into and eroded the faults, which have similarities to some in Canada. A study of one crater has led a researcher to suggest that it was caused by a large impact and became filled by a huge lake of subsurface water which eventually flooded out catastrophically. Yet others believe that the deeply cut, sinuous channel in ...
45. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mixture which is unstable at normal pressures and temperatures. In some areas methane bubbles are regularly escaping and it is now thought that the pock marks are the scars of explosive eruptions of the gas. Where these have occurred in the Atlantic area near Bermuda they could be an explanation for the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes. In the arctic ____permafrost there are more huge deposits of gas hydrates, much nearer the surface than expected. The real mystery, though, is where did all this organic' material, some of it at great depths, come from? Icy explanation New Scientist 30.9 .95, p. 16 One of the wonders of the natural world has ...
46. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... facts...."7 Some astronomers and geologists have not been timid and have now begun to say unabashedly that these megafauna were destroyed by cosmic catastrophes. Sir Fred Hoyle of England, a Nobel laureate, now claims, "Whole herds of mammoths perished all in a moment. They did so by a sudden melting of the ____permafrost on which they spent their lives, causing them to become immersed in icy water, which then refroze within a matter of hours. Only a blast of heat from the sky could have had such an effect, a blast such as occurred at the Tunguska river." Hoyle claims that these events are contained in ancient myth and the ...
47. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... The problem of delivering SNC meteorites remains a serious objection to a planetary source for such meteorites." How then did these meteorites come to be ejected and make their way to the Earth? One proposal suggested that oblique impacts- upon ricocheting-could eject large fragments and accelerate them to escape velocity. Another model held that impacts on Mars would vaporize ____permafrost thereby providing additional acceleration to the ejecting fragments. For various reasons, these models have since been abandoned. H. Melosh, an early critic of the idea that the SNCs could be Martian in origin, offered a model whereby it is possible for planetary impacts to eject a requisite amount of near-surface material without significant shocking through a process ...
48. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... evolution may have been given about one and a half million years ago by renewed tectonic activity in the Rift Valley, around the time early man began to migrate out of Africa into Eurasia. Africa or Siberia?Science Frontiers No. 92, p. 1 A Russian scientist has found thousands of stone tools at 15 sites in the Siberian ____permafrost which appear similar to those associated with early types of man in East Africa 2 Myrs ago, before hominids are supposed to have left Africa. Baby burial New Scientist 4.6 .94, p. 15 The bones of a baby, buried over 50,000 years ago in a cave near the Sea of Galilee, show ...
49. On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles [Journals] [Aeon]
... dinosaurs existed in those very areas which are today reputed, due to their extreme climatic conditions, as the most hostile on Earth. With the mammoths there were dozens other animal species, the majority of which are extinct today. Of these species we have a great number of skeletons, several complete animals that have been perfectly preserved in the ____permafrost, and many wonderful paintings in Palaeolithic caves. The oldest amongst them is the "Chauvet" cave, in France, which is believed to have been painted 30.000 years ago, precisely in the middle of the ice age. They are pictures of breathtaking beauty. The unknown artists, with a few strokes, have represented ...
50. Erratics [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , the flood theory. For the past 150 or more years, scientists have been suggesting that the physics of ice transport can accomplish what their own evidence proves cannot be done. Let us examine the erratic problem from yet another form of evidence. Dyson explains: "Beneath glaciers because they insulate the underlying ground from the winter cold, ____permafrost is thin or absent."143 Thus the soil beneath the glaciers is not frozen hard, and an immense rock lying on such a surface will tend to sink into it. Now add millions or billions of tons of frozen ice on top of it and the rock will be pressed even more deeply into the soft soil. What ...
51. The Terrestrial Sea: A Critical Model of Science and Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... radiation of its heat content into space. And, after the forward momentum of the waves had run their course, this frigid hyperboreal air would descend and pour back onto the Earth to freeze almost everything that had been theretofore transported to the polar regions. This might explain why hecatombs of animal bones and tree fragments are piled helter-skelter in the ____permafrost muck of the frozen north- animals and plants which are not indigenous to the frigid climates- and in some respects account for the demise of some of the mammoths and other ice age inhabitants. However, it doesn't explain all. The mammoth population, for instance, died out over several thousand years. Perhaps an appreciable portion of Earth's atmosphere ...
52. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) and something called cosmic string!! It is a good job this is proper scientific speculation. Long Hibernation source: New Scientist 9.7 .87, p.88 This did not appear on All Fools Day but was mentioned very skeptically by Ariadne: gold miners in Siberia are reported to have found a salamander hibernating in the ____permafrost. It came back to life and died later. The implication is that the salamander had been there (and hibernating) for several thousand years! Anyone with more reliable information please come forward. Search for Homer's Ithaca source: Scientific American November 1987, p.26 There has been so far little to report on, but a ...
53. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ', being like African elephants of today with a salt craving. This theory is all very well but it does not account for other large finds of mammoth and mastodon bones in other parts of the world, especially places where salt deposits are not so obvious. Nor does it account for the findings, in the stomachs of beautifully preserved ____permafrosted mammoths, of temperate vegetation! Electricity in astronomy source: Discover, June 1988, pp. 70-79 Our correspondent Kirk Thompson writes to say that this is the first extended treatment he has seen of the cosmological theories of Hannes Alfven in the conventional press. He certainly gets a sympathetic hearing even though, it is stressed, astrophysicists will ...
54. Pole-Shift [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , the ground must have been soft and unfrozen, previously. You cannot thrust solid flesh into hard-frozen earth. And in the New Siberian Islands, farther north, the Arctic explorer Baron Toll found remains of a sabertooth tiger and a fruit tree that had been ninety feet tall when it was standing. The tree was well preserved in the ____permafrost, and Toll reported that green leaves and ripe fruit still clung to its branches. Yet, at the present time the only representative of tree vegetation on the islands is a willow that grows one inch high. Obviously, around 10,000 years ago luxuriant forest grew on these islands. The picture we have, then, is ...
55. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... .8 .91, p. 19 An international team of planetary scientists has proposed that the geological evidence on the surface of Mars indicates that it has been shaped by glaciers and immense floods of water on several occasions. They suggest that a superplume of magma rose to the surface and lasted about 1 million years each time, melting the ____permafrost and filling a huge sea. This increases the possibility that life could have evolved on Mars. New Scientist 13.7 .91, p. 24 David Hughes of the University of Sheffield has calculated that there were once about eight very large bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and that Mars is now the sole survivor ...
56. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... Europe. 21 With the ice margin near the German Bight and the tree line in Southern France the broad belt of periglacial landscapes presented conditions that have now disappeared from the earth. For, the Pole being near its present position, the radiation clirriate did not differ from the modern and yet a large part of this belt was underlain by ____permafrost and the albedo need not have been the same: no forest, more snow. Eollan activity was strong and low parabolic dunes developed in regions with no, or only scarce, vegetation cover. Of course we need not doubt that the relation between wind velocity and tractive force, determining sand transport, was more or less the same ...
57. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... astronomers were so repulsed by Velikovsky's cosmic catastrophic theory that they created a theory which incorporates nearly all of Velikovsky's concepts of recent cosmic catastrophism. Sir Fred Hoyle, who has become an ardent supporter of Clube and Napier's catastrophic evidence, states that "Whole heads of mammoths perished all in a moment. They did so by sudden melting of the ____permafrost on which they spent their lives, causing them to become immersed in icy water, which then refroze within a matter of hours. Only a blast from the sky could have had such an effect . . . . "We . . . see what it was that rained down fire on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ...
58. A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... close to the magnetic polar location and/or to the northern vortex of the radiation belts. This is why mammoths are found today in Alaska and Siberia, buried and quick-frozen. Glaciation did not engulf them and pulverize them and their surrounding materials; a sudden and permanent shift into an icy climate did occur, however, resulting in the ____permafrost which has preserved them so well for so long. In another core taken at Byrd Station, several additional observations orchestrate behind this isolated discontinuity.28 In this core, it was reported that from a depth of 900 to 1200 m. there is a marked decrease in the number of bubbles in the ice (there was no trace
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1. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... fossil wood was slanted in relation to the plane, while the layers of sand, gravel, and wood above it were horizontal, it is safe to say that it was constructed artificially.... ' [Perhaps as a lean-to] "On examining the pieces of wood from the gat, which were beautifully preserved because of the ____permafrost, ' the explorer also came to the conclusion that they showed clearly preserved traces of chopping with stone axes...."3 In the Lena Valley in the heart of Siberia at the time of the mammoth have been found beavers and planks which can only come from well-wooded regions. This is further supported by research of the ...
2. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was cold enough to freeze the ground solid to bedrock? 2. What caused the chaotic formation of the wood hills'?, which run for miles across some of the New Siberian Islands and are accompanied by the frozen remains of countless non-Arctic animal species, such. as horse, American stag, antelope and tiger [15]? Permafrost However there is a much greater problem confronting these glacialists, the proponents of ' Ice Age' theory and those who specialise in Arctic research: PERMAFROST. The word Permafrost' - in Russian Vechnaya Merzlota - was coined in 1945 to distinguish the permanently frozen subsoil deposits comprising over 9,000,000 km (47%) of ...
3. An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2005 (Sep 2005) Home | Issue Contents An Unexplained Arctic Catastrophe – Part II: Some Unanswered Questions Derek S. Allan As the primary intention of my previous survey of the Sibero-Alaskan ____permafrost' formation was to emphasise its apparent cataclysmic origin around 11,500 years ago, its remarkable geographical extent, the enigmatic character of its composition, and its locally enormous vertical depth [1 ], certain other related factors and problems were not perforce touched upon then. Six of these, now considered below, need to be satisfactorily accommodated if this great Arctic mystery is ever to be properly unravelled. Still others also exist, but are not ...
4. Has Science Got it Wrong? – Remarks on the Arctic [Journals] [SIS Review]
... destroyed them over huge geographical areas only shortly before it entombed their mutilated remnants within the Drift' itself. Such a scenario, or one very like it, is forced upon us when closer attention is paid to the relevant field evidence. The organic remains just spotlighted are broadly divisible into two main categories: those which occur in the frozen ____permafrost' deposits of Arctic Asia and North America (Fig. 1) and those present in the adjacent unfrozen Drift' beds of lower latitudes in those continents and Europe. Basically, both sets of deposits yield the same general faunas, although not unexpectedly sometimes with local variations. This picture is duplicated in the associated botanical record. The ...
5. Arctic Tundra Mammoth Steppe Or Velikovskian Poleshift? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... . Producing the toxins was effective but costly. "Even dead needles and leaves of these conservative plants are so toxic that decomposers leave them for decades until physical processes begin their breakdown. In a spruce forest or sedge meadow, this toxic plant litter accumulates, forming a thick spongy mat that insulates the soil and inhibits summer thaw. Gradually ____permafrost creeps upward until it lies just under the mat, summer thaw does not drive very deep. With deeper soils frozen, only shallow soil nutrients are available and nutrients from dead plants recycle slowly because of slow decomposition. Plants living in these conditions must be able to extract nutrients from a shallow, nutrient-poor zone, and for this reason ...
6. Radiocarbon Dating The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... processes that had to gradually release tremendous amounts of old carbon into the atmosphere, which was returned to the soil and ground water over time and that had to have greatly affected the radiocarbon ages of all living organisms on Earth during the hipsithermal. The first two reservoirs are found in the arctic and near arctic regions in frozen ground, the ____permafrost. As Robert Jastrow and Malcolm H. Thompson explain, there is a... ". .. special property of the reactions that cause carbon dioxide to combine with rocks in the form of carbonates. The effectiveness of the these reactions in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere depends very strongly on the temperature of the rocks [ ...
7. Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... maintained that the skin of the woolly rhinoceros (a contemporary of the woolly mammoth and whose bones often accompany it in fossil assemblages) was not equipped as in its modern relatives? Possession of the requisite oil glands admits this animal to the arctic fraternity unopposed but re-imposes and reinforces the problem of extinction, since frozen rhinoceros carcasses occur in the ____permafrost coeval with mammoth. Much is made also of comparing the wool and hair coat of the mammoth with the fur of the tiger, a "tropical" creature. The tiger is a bad choice of example for it is a generalised predator, whose ecological niche is determined not by climate but by source of prey. Thus, tigers ...
8. The Problem Of The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... : One takes a mammoth... and places it on or beneath a steep south facing hillside. This should be done in the winter time in an area of the High Arctic where the ground is always frozen, not only at the surface (where it thaws in summer) but well down into the earth (which is called ____permafrost). For a first rate result, keep watch until the animal (which is assumed to be dead) has frozen through and through. If not, it may happen that wolves or lions... run away with the best pieces. "After this, things should work out. In spring the uppermost layer of earth ...
9. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . W. Ikin and D. A. Parry, have reported to us some of Adrian Berry's writing on the subject of elephants and mammoths. He wrote: "A vast amount of nonsense has been talked about the extinction of the mammoth. One British scientist' recently suggested, for example, that the discovery of dead mammoths in ____permafrost, with their flesh, and even their cells, intact, was evidence that they were overwhelmed by the sudden onset of an Ice Age - as if they couldn't simply migrate southwards when the climate turned cold!" Note the placing of the word scientist' in inverted commas, denigrating the status of a man daring to offer a ...
10. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 1 [Journals] [Pensee]
... had always plagued the riverbed theory, aside from that of providing water on the moon, was that, with one or two questionable exceptions, the imaginary lunar rivers had left no delta deposits or other evidence of outwash materials unloaded at their lower ends. Urey, seizing upon Thomas Gold's suggestion that the lunar maria might be underlain by a ____permafrost layer of "plastic ice" (18), argued that riverbeds carved in ice would yield detritus consisting mostly of ice, and such material would wash out at the foot of the stream and melt, evaporate, and eventually escape into space, leaving no evidence behind (19). But John A. O'Keefe, of NASA's ...
11. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... an excellent short article on the subject, relating the High Arctic finds to similar Antarctic evidence for the same time period, and we understand this is to be published shortly in Aeon (issue number 7). Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands lie within the Arctic Circle, on the same latitude as northern Greenland and are at present wastes of ____permafrost, with the only vegetation ground-hugging and dormant during the four months of winter darkness. Thick layers of sands, silts and coals, said to be from the early part of the Tertiary Period (i .e ., immediately following the extinction of the dinosaurs) have long been known from here and finds of fossil wood and stumps ...
12. Editor's Page [Journals] [Aeon]
... I have never really seen one. I love them because they seem to have been such noble-looking beasts. And if present-day elephants are anything to judge by, they probably were just as docile when not preyed upon. I was, therefore, elated to hear that one more of these magnificent behemoths had been discovered entirely intact in the rock-hard ____permafrost of Siberia's Taimyr peninsula. It was discovered by a Siberian family while herding reindeer in 1997. When scientists arrived on the scene to dig the furry giant out of its icy tomb, they were assailed by the fetid odor of elephant dung. The beast itself, however, was anything but pungent. Dick Mol, A Dutch scientist ...
13. The Extinction of the Mammoth by Charles Ginenthal (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... more evidence which he intends to incorporate in a sizeable addition to a future edition of the book. It should severely undermine the establishment position; their only defence will be not to read it. Jill Abery This essay is undoubtedly among the very best of many made attempting to solve the seemingly intractable problem of the frozen mammoths of the Alasko-Siberian ____permafrost. Future students of this mystery will be enormously indebted to Ginenthal for the impressive breadth of the material discussed and for so ably marshalling the multifarious sources with which it is documented. Virtually all aspects of the subject are investigated, often in unexpected detail. These range from the physiological peculiarities of living elephants and their nutritional requirements and how ...
14. Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Arctic Circle. But to their utter surprise, they [Dawson, West] also began to uncover the fossilized remains of tortoises and alligators, creatures that could only have existed in a frost-free climate.... ' [29] Previously, little vertebrate paleontology had been done in the High Arctic where many fossils are frozen in the ____permafrost, which is never more than 18 inches below the surface. Constant overturning and mixing of soil means extra reconstruction of fossil fragments and considerably less end product. From 1973 to 1986, paleontologists explored 5 sites on Ellesmere Island and one on Axel Heiberg Island. Ellesmere fossil locales are Makinson Inlet on the east coast; Baumann fjord, ...
15. Botanical Fantasies [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... it grows near "Needle-leaved forest," while in eastern Canada and the Maritime Provinces, it grows near "broad-leaved" and Needle-leaved forest.194 Only in the Aleutians does it grow on tundra. But even there we do find trees. But Borisov claims that there was no ice on Spitsbergen during the hipsithermal.195and that the "____permafrost which covers the Arctic Basin deteriorated greatly during the period of warming... in... Siberia melting [to]...a depth of 200-300 meters]. "196 Thus, Spitsbergen had no tundra conditions, the ____permafrost had The significance of the fact that E. Nigrum was flowering, growing berries with ripe ...
16. C&C Review 2001:1: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: C&C Review 2001:1 Texts Home | SIS Review Home Chronology & Catastrophism Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 2001:2 News 2 Articles Arctic Anomalies 3 A review by Derek Allan of the strange geology of ____permafrost and the arctic regions. The Ring About The Earth At 2300 BC 8 Moe Mandelkehr develops his theory of a 2300BC catastrophe with an explanation of its cause The Valley of Colours 18 Nesta Caiger describes the discovery of a source of pigments used in Egyptian art. Apocalyptic Imagery In Modern Political Spectacle 20 Irving Wolfe analyses the rituals of the Nazis and finds evidence of suppressed memories. The Role Of The Nile In Egyptian Chronology 26 Lynn ...
17. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not tally with what is found in Earth's northern regions? There are other instances in Indic lore which touch upon the same event but the above should suffice for now. If man was close enough to this planetary tornado to witness it, how was he not engulfed in its carnage? Why do we not find human remains in the northern ____permafrost? Man is an intelligent animal and would have known enough to stay in the safety zone outside the periphery of the vortex. Thus it was written in relation to Mount Meru, the golden mountain' which, like Mandara, was a stand-in for the axis mundi [177], that men cannot approach it. Dreadful beasts of ...
18. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... creature which cannot be shown to have existed earlier than the penultimate glaciation of Europe (240,000-200,000 B.P .) and which, along with other animal species, became extinct at the end of the geological division known as the Pleistocene.(6 ) The locality of their deep-frozen corpses is, of course, the ____permafrost zone of the present Arctic Circle.(7 ) In addressing the problem of the frozen mammoths, it may be considered legitimate to include other polar regions and other species and, indeed, frozen specimens other than Mammuthus primigenius as well as, perhaps, skeletal evidence of proven contemporaneity. It is not permissible, however, to include ...
19. The Animal that Changed the Course of World History: The Mammoth [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , stems of shrub willows; their analysis permitted the reconstruction of the East Siberian flora of that remote time. This proved to be a predomination of cereals and plants, shrub willows, and tundra birches. Some larches could be seen. The creek valley where the calf lost its life was swampy and abundant in sedges, and there was ____permafrost underneath. Now let us move to the foothills of the Carpathians. In 1907 an oil pit near the village of Starun was found containing remnants of an adult mammoth and plant life. This giant got himself caught in this trap some 10,000 years ago. At that time the climate of the Carpathian Mountains was colder than it ...
20. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Sir, The enclosed cutting from the SCOTSMAN, October 9, 1985, reports NASA's Ames Research Centre findings that "Mars once had a thicker atmosphere, substantial volcanic activity and enough water possibly to cover it with an ocean 30 to 300 feet deep." However, the scientists expect the water still to be there in the form of ____permafrost and ice deep beneath the surface. They say nothing about the missing atmosphere. Actually Mariner 4, in 1965, confirmed that Mars' surface pressure is less than one-hundredth that of Earth when only one-tenth less was expected, which means 90 per cent of the atmosphere is missing. Ralph E. Juergens, in a two-part paper " ...
21. Fossil cemeteries [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... only by a catastrophe which rapidly destroyed whole herds of them. .( .. . ) The Bolshoi Lyakhov Island, the southernmost of the Novosibirskiye Islands, is essentially a cemetery of mammoths. Mammoth tusks and sometimes whole corpses of mammoths and other mammals were buried in great numbers in the Quaternary sediments; they have been preserved by the ____permafrost of the soil. In the coastal slopes washed by the surf the tusks thaw out in summer and fall on to the beech; in the past they were annually gathered in by traders who came from the continent. These abundant remains of large animals on a relatively small island which was unable to provide food for them is accounted for ...
22. Obituary: Derek Scott Allan (1917-2000) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have been different. A final move to Hertfordshire, in his mid-70s, would have been the signal for most of us to retire gracefully but Derek became librarian of the local school and carried on writing on the age and deposition of the enigmatic Siberian and Alaskan muck-beds' - based largely upon his familiarity with specialist, difficult-to-access Russian literature on ____permafrost problems. In his final 12 months he was gratified to find contemporary researchers recording the fact that, on the basis of the latest field evidence, Greenland, during Eemian (Pleistocene) times, was ice-free - very much as he had long advocated from other considerations (K .H . Cuffey & S.J . Marshall. ...
23. Catastrophism and the Mammoths- III (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... such representatives of climatic phases are considered valuable in the attempted reconstruction of past climates from the faunal skeletal remains. If it is erroneous to regard Mammuthus primigenius as an arctic species, then this may give rise to inconsistencies in the interpretation of such faunal assemblages. Be that as it may, one must then account for the absense in the ____permafrost of frozen temperate species of animal in association with the mammoth, a point that I had earlier raised but, Cardona's howler apart, one which remains unanswered . 40,000+ YEARS OLD? I agree with Ellenberger in that the radiocarbon dating of frozen mammoth remains is a subject that is important enough to warrant renewed discussion. His ...
24. Cosmos & Chronos Symposium report [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... text and their translations- Venus and Mars paired with the verbs for destruction and obscuration, for example. Fred's (I didn't catch the gentleman's last name) presentation suggested placing the World Mountain on earth, at the pole. It reached high enough to expose the north pole to space. He said that this was the only explanation for ____permafrost. He dismissed the polar configuration as "impossible", then placed the earth on a large eliptical orbit which brought it close to all of the inner planets in turn (even Mercury.) Dwardu Cardona gave a paper similar to the one he printed on this forum about the history and development of the name of the comet associated ...
25. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - II (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... and when irreversible damage did occur, it was a consequence of too rapid re-warming rather than the initial cooling mechanism.(56) ONLY GIANTS PRESERVED? Two of the correspondents have disputed my observation, developed from Farrand, that "it is usually the giant mammals of the Pleistocene (woolly rhinoceros and mammoth) which are preserved in the ____permafrost .. . [when] at least equal representation by other animal species in a deep frozen state is to be expected". Ellenberger admits that the frozen cadavers of the smaller animals are not abundant and supplements the rneagre frozen Iynx, lemming, and hare (culled from a reference that I supplied) with finds of the bones
26. Poleshift [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... . It is almost certainly correct."128. On the basis of this evidence tall, thick trees cannot grow in the arctic. The established view is that tall trees did not grow there at the same time that the mammoth lived in the far northern regions. However, in 1943 Stephen Taber wrote to describe trees found in the ____permafrost of Alaska. "On Quartz Creek bones of mammoth and horse were found with the trunks of large spruce trees, one of which is said to be 5 feet in diameter and 80 feet long."129 Sanderson also points out that, "forty-foot tree trunks have been found in the muck of Siberian Islands.... ...
27. Thoth Vol IV, No. 2: Jan 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... writhing like a serpent in travail, it went berserk and overstepped the bounds within which it had been contained for ages. Taken unawares, beasts fell prone to it. Man, apparently, was just that much smarter. THE ONSLAUGHT OF ICE The penultimate question I wish to raise concerns the freezing of the . . . Arctic muck or ____permafrost. How did it all freeze? Where did the ice come from? . . . Is it traceable to the planet Saturn or Earth's primeval position in relation to Saturn? Can this demand also be met? This is an easy question to answer. The Greeks, for instance, had long associated . . . Saturn, with ...
28. The Flood [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... would survive before the bog became a mire of mud; therefore, if a tidal wave deposited whales on continents, they would have to be found in surface lakes, ponds and bogs, for example. However, whales would, more commonly, be found stranded on land. In Vestspitzbergen, Norway, a whale was discovered in the ____permafrost, a physical impossibility based on geological uniformitarianism. Permafrost is as hard as rock and will not allow a floating whale to enter it. D. L. Dineley and P. A. Garrett reported the following: The ice core of the moraine rises to about 20 feet above the high water mark and the dirt cover is probably ...
29. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... remarkably Yuma like, ' all of which indicates that the multitudes of torn animals and splintered forests date from a time not many thousands of years ago."51 William N. Irving and C.R . Harington in Science, report having found the jaw bone of a child perhaps eleven or twelve years old in the graveyard of the ____permafrost of the Yukon.52 Siberia In Siberia on the other side of the Arctic Ocean are found mass graveyards of mammoth bones by the millions upon millions as well as on the New Siberian Islands. "In the stomachs and between the teeth of the mammoths were found plants and grasses that do not grow now in northern Siberia. The ...
30. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... event, but in deference to time and space constraints, the above should suffice for now. One question that crops up here is this: If man had been close enough to this planetary tornado to witness the events, how is it that he was not himself engulfed in its carnage? Why do we not find human remains in the ____permafrost of the north? Man, however, is an intelligent animal and he would have known enough to stay within the safety zone outside the demarcated periphery of the vortex. Thus it was written in relation to Mount Meru, the "golden mountain" which, like Mandara, was a stand-in for the axis mundi, [169] ...
31. Petrofabric Analysis: An Unreliable Archaeological Tool [Journals] [Kronos]
... . Other work utilising petrofabric techniques was performed by J. S. Bibby himself and his co-worker, J. M. Ragg, on solifluction in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.(13) In regions of high latitude, or altitude, where the summer thaw only reaches down to a certain depth, the levels below are termed the ____permafrost. When thaw occurs, water cannot percolate down through this ____permafrost and the top soils may become saturated with water. On slopes greater than a few degrees, the water may sludge downhill carrying material which is eventually deposited. Bibby's and Ragg's work showed that in some cases the long axes of the deposited material were influenced strongly by the ...
32. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... moving ice would have erased all such evidence down to a considerable depth of rock, even in the absence of land thrusts, flood, wind and fire. Certainly humans retreated to warmer climates in the face of the icy tempests. Still, primates, proto-humans and homo sapiens lived among the animals whose remains have been found under ice and ____permafrost. Whether a long-term date (like two million years) or a short-term date such as I suggest here is adopted, these species existed before the ice and they may one day provide new fossil discoveries. There is an old map, called the Piri Reis map, that shows perhaps the coastline of the Antarctic continent as it would ...
33. Continuous Versus Discontinuous and Self-Perpetuating Versus Self-Terminating Processes [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... S ., 1935: Theory of heat conduction applied to geological problems. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 46/1 : 69-93. McLaren D.J . 1970: Presidential Address: time, life and boundaries. J. Paleo., 44/5 : 801-815. McVee C.V ., 1973: Permafrost considerations in land use planning management; Permafrost, second international conference, Nat. Acad. Sc., Washington D.C .: 146151. Morgenstern N.R ., 1967: Submarine slumping and the initiation of turbidity currents. Marine Geotechnique, F. Richards ed ., Univ. Illinois Press: 189-220. Nettleton L ...
34. Ice Core Evidence [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... is today. At the same time, a [2 to 2.5 C] rise in...the surface water [for the molluscs to live] and of the layer of air nearest [to] the ground...has been very well demonstrated by a number of independently conducted studies using different methods. The ____permafrost, which covers the Arctic Basin, greatly deteriorated during the period of its warming. Thus, in the north and northwest of Siberia, the melting reached a depth of [200 to 300 meters]. The mountain glaciers diminished considerably and, in some places, disappeared altogether. How did the climate react to the disappearance of ice ...
35. Buried Forests [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... time. Entire forests of such trees and others could not have been buried by floods, even from ice dammed continental glaciers during the Ice Age, since forests did not then exist in these regions. Furthermore, during the last interglacial, all the icecaps melted away and the temperature in the far north was so warm that it melted the ____permafrost down to great depth. Therefore, nearly all trees from the last interglacial period would have rotted away. The buried forests, to be discussed, could not have been buried gradually as the ice-sheet gradually advanced. As Butler and Hoyle pointed out above, based on Glen's Law, a mass of ice 6,560 feet high moving ...
36. Pole Shifts And The Arctic Ocean Ice Cover [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... how you manipulate data to produce contradictions and thoroughly inane results. To make this even clearer, let us see what really happens as we get to higher latitudes with a 1oF, 0.6oC rise in temperature. According to William K. Steven reporting in The New York Times about a temperature rise of this amount: "The regions ____permafrost... is thawing in Alaska's interior. Over thousands of miles big patches of forests are drowning and turning gray as the ground sinks under them and swamp water floods them... "About the magnitude of the warming there is little doubt. While the average surface temperature of the globe has risen over the last century by ...
37. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... the other hemisphere have been left with enough atmosphere to sustain and protect plant and animal life? There are other problems. The Ice Ages: To my understanding, no one can deny the ice ages, especially the last one. How, for instance, were the mammoths of Earth's northern regions- thousands of years old- covered with ____permafrost within hours of their death? Had these beasts been exposed to the elements for even a few days, they would have been subject to decay and scavenging. Yet the remains of these mammoths, including the one discovered in 1999, were perfectly preserved. Also, had these animals lived in a sunny Golden Age, why the need ...
38. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... SNC meteorites remains a serious objection to a planetary source for such meteorites." (38) How then did these meteorites come to be ejected and make their way to Earth? One proposal suggested that oblique impacts- upon ricocheting- could eject large fragments and accelerate them to escape velocity. Another model held that impacts on Mars would vaporize ____permafrost thereby providing additional acceleration to the ejecting fragments. For various reasons, (39) these models have since been abandoned. H. Melosh, an early critic of the idea that the SNCs could be Martian in origin, offered a model whereby it would be possible for planetary impacts to eject a requisite amount of near-surface material without significant ...
39. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that lit up the sky. ' GEOLOGY Evidence for Gold Science Frontiers No. 91, Jan-Feb 1994, p. 3 Thomas Gold's theory that life exists deep in the earth has been vindicated yet again with the discovery of high concentrations of hyperthermophilic bacteria in the fluids from 4 oil reservoirs from 3000 metres below the North Sea and below the ____permafrost in Alaska. The paper reporting the discovery was published in Nature so it comes as little surprise to find the authors trying to explain the presence of the bacteria as secondary contamination. Fast fossilization New Scientist 19.3 .94, p. 46 Scientists have replicated the mineralisation process that probably preserved the minute detail of fish fossils from ...
40. Scientific Dating Methods In Ruins [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... years ago, the disarranged radiocarbon dates found in the sediment were rearranged to support this assumption. These same dates could also have been rearranged based on other assumptions. To illustrate just how insidiously radiocarbon is manipulated to give established, expected results, William N. Irving and C. R. Harington tested a human child's jawbone found in the ____permafrost of Yukon muck. The date uncovered was so out of line with expectations that it posed a serious problem. One of the basic assumptions of American anthropologists is that mankind arrived across the Bering land bridge into the Americas no more than 12,000 years ago, or around the time the Ice Age is assumed to have ended. ...
41. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in its own right. Martian Water Confirmed New Scientist, 1.6 .02, p. 13, Scientific American, May 2002, p. 20 The discovery of hydrogen below the surface of Mars in large quantities around the south pole is interpreted as meaning that there is definitely water there. It would be frozen, as in ____permafrost on Earth, but there seems to be enough to fill a large lake. So far, measurements do not indicate a similar situation at the north pole. Additional evidence for water comes from images from the Mars orbital camera which suggest that water flooded a large channel system as recently as 10Myrs ago. Moons and Rings New Scientist, ...
42. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... This requires energy, and energy almost invariably ends up in the form of heat. That heat would then prevent the necessary cooling to form the additional ice. If it be argued that the Earth for some reason enters a simple cooling phase, then water will freeze in situ. The polar caps will he extended but only by a thinly-layered ____permafrost zone which would not yield massive glaciers. Displacement of the polar cap requires neither heating nor cooling, and this is in keeping with the general evidence that the Earth was not cooled overall during ice ages. Parkin (1976), for example, notes that the Sahara remained arid during the last ice age. The Sahara lies close ...
43. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... certain types of plants grow. Hubert H. Lamb was mentioned; his name has come up from time to time - has anyone at SIS looked at his work on climate in more detail? Trees in Siberia grew to be large, put on wide growth rings and sank their roots deep into the soil - impossible nowadays due to the ____permafrost and the short summer. In Greenland, trees as thick as a man's thigh were found standing 1000 ft above sea level. There is no discussion in the papers as to how these trees got there. In the highlands of the Southern Sahara, there are 3-4,000 year-old olive trees surviving in a pocket where there were once ...
44. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that the so-called rivers' could not have been formed by rain as on Earth but they still think of them as water carved, suggesting that they were formed by one-off floods of water bursting out of the ground. Others think the channels were formed when subterranean magma pushed rocks aside to make fault lines, at the same time melting the ____permafrost which then flowed into and eroded the faults, which have similarities to some in Canada. A study of one crater has led a researcher to suggest that it was caused by a large impact and became filled by a huge lake of subsurface water which eventually flooded out catastrophically. Yet others believe that the deeply cut, sinuous channel in ...
45. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mixture which is unstable at normal pressures and temperatures. In some areas methane bubbles are regularly escaping and it is now thought that the pock marks are the scars of explosive eruptions of the gas. Where these have occurred in the Atlantic area near Bermuda they could be an explanation for the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes. In the arctic ____permafrost there are more huge deposits of gas hydrates, much nearer the surface than expected. The real mystery, though, is where did all this organic' material, some of it at great depths, come from? Icy explanation New Scientist 30.9 .95, p. 16 One of the wonders of the natural world has ...
46. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... facts...."7 Some astronomers and geologists have not been timid and have now begun to say unabashedly that these megafauna were destroyed by cosmic catastrophes. Sir Fred Hoyle of England, a Nobel laureate, now claims, "Whole herds of mammoths perished all in a moment. They did so by a sudden melting of the ____permafrost on which they spent their lives, causing them to become immersed in icy water, which then refroze within a matter of hours. Only a blast of heat from the sky could have had such an effect, a blast such as occurred at the Tunguska river." Hoyle claims that these events are contained in ancient myth and the ...
47. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... The problem of delivering SNC meteorites remains a serious objection to a planetary source for such meteorites." How then did these meteorites come to be ejected and make their way to the Earth? One proposal suggested that oblique impacts- upon ricocheting-could eject large fragments and accelerate them to escape velocity. Another model held that impacts on Mars would vaporize ____permafrost thereby providing additional acceleration to the ejecting fragments. For various reasons, these models have since been abandoned. H. Melosh, an early critic of the idea that the SNCs could be Martian in origin, offered a model whereby it is possible for planetary impacts to eject a requisite amount of near-surface material without significant shocking through a process ...
48. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... evolution may have been given about one and a half million years ago by renewed tectonic activity in the Rift Valley, around the time early man began to migrate out of Africa into Eurasia. Africa or Siberia?Science Frontiers No. 92, p. 1 A Russian scientist has found thousands of stone tools at 15 sites in the Siberian ____permafrost which appear similar to those associated with early types of man in East Africa 2 Myrs ago, before hominids are supposed to have left Africa. Baby burial New Scientist 4.6 .94, p. 15 The bones of a baby, buried over 50,000 years ago in a cave near the Sea of Galilee, show ...
49. On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles [Journals] [Aeon]
... dinosaurs existed in those very areas which are today reputed, due to their extreme climatic conditions, as the most hostile on Earth. With the mammoths there were dozens other animal species, the majority of which are extinct today. Of these species we have a great number of skeletons, several complete animals that have been perfectly preserved in the ____permafrost, and many wonderful paintings in Palaeolithic caves. The oldest amongst them is the "Chauvet" cave, in France, which is believed to have been painted 30.000 years ago, precisely in the middle of the ice age. They are pictures of breathtaking beauty. The unknown artists, with a few strokes, have represented ...
50. Erratics [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , the flood theory. For the past 150 or more years, scientists have been suggesting that the physics of ice transport can accomplish what their own evidence proves cannot be done. Let us examine the erratic problem from yet another form of evidence. Dyson explains: "Beneath glaciers because they insulate the underlying ground from the winter cold, ____permafrost is thin or absent."143 Thus the soil beneath the glaciers is not frozen hard, and an immense rock lying on such a surface will tend to sink into it. Now add millions or billions of tons of frozen ice on top of it and the rock will be pressed even more deeply into the soft soil. What ...
51. The Terrestrial Sea: A Critical Model of Science and Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... radiation of its heat content into space. And, after the forward momentum of the waves had run their course, this frigid hyperboreal air would descend and pour back onto the Earth to freeze almost everything that had been theretofore transported to the polar regions. This might explain why hecatombs of animal bones and tree fragments are piled helter-skelter in the ____permafrost muck of the frozen north- animals and plants which are not indigenous to the frigid climates- and in some respects account for the demise of some of the mammoths and other ice age inhabitants. However, it doesn't explain all. The mammoth population, for instance, died out over several thousand years. Perhaps an appreciable portion of Earth's atmosphere ...
52. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) and something called cosmic string!! It is a good job this is proper scientific speculation. Long Hibernation source: New Scientist 9.7 .87, p.88 This did not appear on All Fools Day but was mentioned very skeptically by Ariadne: gold miners in Siberia are reported to have found a salamander hibernating in the ____permafrost. It came back to life and died later. The implication is that the salamander had been there (and hibernating) for several thousand years! Anyone with more reliable information please come forward. Search for Homer's Ithaca source: Scientific American November 1987, p.26 There has been so far little to report on, but a ...
53. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ', being like African elephants of today with a salt craving. This theory is all very well but it does not account for other large finds of mammoth and mastodon bones in other parts of the world, especially places where salt deposits are not so obvious. Nor does it account for the findings, in the stomachs of beautifully preserved ____permafrosted mammoths, of temperate vegetation! Electricity in astronomy source: Discover, June 1988, pp. 70-79 Our correspondent Kirk Thompson writes to say that this is the first extended treatment he has seen of the cosmological theories of Hannes Alfven in the conventional press. He certainly gets a sympathetic hearing even though, it is stressed, astrophysicists will ...
54. Pole-Shift [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , the ground must have been soft and unfrozen, previously. You cannot thrust solid flesh into hard-frozen earth. And in the New Siberian Islands, farther north, the Arctic explorer Baron Toll found remains of a sabertooth tiger and a fruit tree that had been ninety feet tall when it was standing. The tree was well preserved in the ____permafrost, and Toll reported that green leaves and ripe fruit still clung to its branches. Yet, at the present time the only representative of tree vegetation on the islands is a willow that grows one inch high. Obviously, around 10,000 years ago luxuriant forest grew on these islands. The picture we have, then, is ...
55. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... .8 .91, p. 19 An international team of planetary scientists has proposed that the geological evidence on the surface of Mars indicates that it has been shaped by glaciers and immense floods of water on several occasions. They suggest that a superplume of magma rose to the surface and lasted about 1 million years each time, melting the ____permafrost and filling a huge sea. This increases the possibility that life could have evolved on Mars. New Scientist 13.7 .91, p. 24 David Hughes of the University of Sheffield has calculated that there were once about eight very large bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and that Mars is now the sole survivor ...
56. Actualism in Geology and in Geography [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... Europe. 21 With the ice margin near the German Bight and the tree line in Southern France the broad belt of periglacial landscapes presented conditions that have now disappeared from the earth. For, the Pole being near its present position, the radiation clirriate did not differ from the modern and yet a large part of this belt was underlain by ____permafrost and the albedo need not have been the same: no forest, more snow. Eollan activity was strong and low parabolic dunes developed in regions with no, or only scarce, vegetation cover. Of course we need not doubt that the relation between wind velocity and tractive force, determining sand transport, was more or less the same ...
57. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... astronomers were so repulsed by Velikovsky's cosmic catastrophic theory that they created a theory which incorporates nearly all of Velikovsky's concepts of recent cosmic catastrophism. Sir Fred Hoyle, who has become an ardent supporter of Clube and Napier's catastrophic evidence, states that "Whole heads of mammoths perished all in a moment. They did so by sudden melting of the ____permafrost on which they spent their lives, causing them to become immersed in icy water, which then refroze within a matter of hours. Only a blast from the sky could have had such an effect . . . . "We . . . see what it was that rained down fire on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ...
58. A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... close to the magnetic polar location and/or to the northern vortex of the radiation belts. This is why mammoths are found today in Alaska and Siberia, buried and quick-frozen. Glaciation did not engulf them and pulverize them and their surrounding materials; a sudden and permanent shift into an icy climate did occur, however, resulting in the ____permafrost which has preserved them so well for so long. In another core taken at Byrd Station, several additional observations orchestrate behind this isolated discontinuity.28 In this core, it was reported that from a depth of 900 to 1200 m. there is a marked decrease in the number of bubbles in the ice (there was no trace