Guest “Geology Rocks!” by David Middleton Impact Crater off the African Coast May Be Linked to ChicxulubThe underwater crater, spotted serendipitously in commercial observations of seafloor sediments, is believed to…
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DART Mission Launched to Test “Armageddon” Asteroid Deflection Capability
Following recent concerns that the risk of dangerous Asteroid impacts may have been underestimated, NASA appears to be stepping up its plans to develop the capability to deflect inbound space…
Bronze Age City Destroyed by Bolide
Guest “They nailed this one” by David Middleton Scientific archaeology is essentially forensic history. It is an interdisciplinary effort, involving multiple disciplines, often including: archaeology, geology, geophysics, physical geography, geochemistry,…
The Single Biggest Problem With the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: Uniformitarian Impact Craters, Part Cinq
Guest commentary by David Middleton YDIH = Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis YDB = Younger Dryas Boundary Last month I shot a big hole in the latest YDIH paper. This Science…
Making sense of senseless sea level scares in Norfolk Virginia – 60% of the rise is from subsidence, the remainder from landfill settling
One of the problems with so called “science writers” in the mainstream media today is that few of them have the wherewithal and training to do some basic sanity checking.…
New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas
There’s a new paper in PNAS worth having a look at. It seems the authors found some very strong evidence for a comet or asteroid impact during the period known…
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