[meteorite-list] More golden showers

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:57:41 -0500
Message-ID: <084201c8e0bf$893eaaa0$2346e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Darren, List,

    Please note that the first press release said
that the discovery disproved the "now discredited"
theory of glacial transport. A few days later, they say:
"diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected
into the air during the blasts, West said, or they could
have been carried south by rivers formed from the
meltwater of liquified glaciers."

    Change your tune much?

    Note also that they specify a magnitude for the
blast of 300,000 megatons. This would require an
impactor of 1000 to 1300 meters in diameter (more
for a comet) and would produce a 20-kilometer crater.
They say a 5000 meter comet, for good measure.

    Even better is this assertion: "For several months
following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
stone and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds
drizzled down by the tons."

    FOR MONTHS? Diamonds and gold rained from
the sky for MONTHS? As dust, they explain -- diamond
dust and presumably gold dust. I wonder how many tens
of thousands of tons of diamonds they think were laying
around on the Canadian tundra?

    One easily testable assertion of their scheme is these
massive floods of glacial meltwaters at precisely 12,900
years ago EVERYWHERE in the northern tier of states,
entirely at the same instant, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Since glacial melt chronology has been worked out in
great detail over a century, there should be some sign
of this massive melt they speak of. (PS: they're isn't any.)

    While in one place, they speak of a "three-mile comet,"
elsewhere in the press release, they speak of "the multiple
airbursts..." Always good to have a couple of different
stories going, I guess.

    This just gets more entertaining by the day...


Sterling K. Webb
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html

Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age

Monday , July 07, 2008
By Ker Than

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Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States might have
rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered over Canada and
set
North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of animals and humans.

New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in Ohio and Indiana
reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada several thousand
years
ago. The question is, how?

"There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that anyone knows of, but
there
are plenty of them in Canada," said retired geophysicist Allen West, who was
involved in the study.

The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West and colleagues
that a
3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets in eastern Canada
about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.

"These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas going off at once," said
West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a century ago possibly
caused by a fragmenting meteor.

Precious rain

The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into the air during
the
blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by rivers formed
from
the meltwater of liquified glaciers.

For several months following the comet strike, the skies rained precious
stone
and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled down by the tons.

"Some of them you couldn't see, and animals would've been breathing them
in,"
West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly have been visible. They
might've even hurt if they hit you."

The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and dropped like hail
stones
within seconds of the blasts, West said.

The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold viruses," would have lingered in
the
atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to Earth like
expensive
snowflakes.

Killed man and beast

Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked forests fires
around
the globe, West contends.

The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire. North America's
grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of humans - all would
have
been set ablaze.

West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike contributed to
the
extinction of several species of North American megafauna, including
mammoths
and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis culture, a Stone
Age
people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.

The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts of fresh water
to be
dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting currents and
prompting a
sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.

"The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that climate change at the
end
of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic event," said study team
member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati.

While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent with the theory of
a
comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West cautions that it is
not
a "smoking gun."

"We're a long way from saying categorically that these things got here
because
of this event," West said. "They're consistent, but we've got a lot more
work to
do to show there's a direct connection."

The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a scientific
journal.

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