Oh yes, countless nano diamonds were found throughout the extinction layer! Jerry Flaherty----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:28 PMSubject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite Fragments
Another NAME mentioned in the NG is geologist Allen West whose search for telltale micrometeorites in Mamm. tusks led him to a warehouse outside of Calgary, Canada Fossils. Ageing the tusks, after locating several with multiple metal fragments and following this up with a similarly pelted giant bison, radio carbon dating being as imprecise as IT is, something else serendipitously intervened to nail down the time! The bones of a Clovis era horse, packed with silt, were found IN the Extinction layer[the level just below the Black Mats which mark the "ceiling" of the of the NA Mega fauna "extinction event" [yet to be confirmed] Probing into this 13,000 year old silt at the atomic level, finding high levels of, guess what, Iridium, spawned a continent wide search for similar finding combing the suspected extinction layer for E.T. evidence. As they had hoped, elevated levels of Iridium turned up at other sites across the continent. Knowing that this one finding was inconclusive since concentrations of this element are known to happen in more conventional ways, the study was referred to Dr LuAnn Becker, a geochemist and an authority on the cosmic chemistry of trace elements involved in these cataclysmic events. Looking for nano sized traces of star dust, she found fullerenes, thought to have formed in the explosion of rare carbon stars, with cosmic HE3 trapped inside. Becker is among a group who surmise that these have arrived on earth by hitching rides on comets or asteroids. Though many experts remain skeptical of the validity of the emerging science related to buckeye balls another problem relates to the lack of a crater dating to that time. ICE, however, makes a marvelous mask and might explain the absence of traces of a 13,000 year old crater which, enormous if it were capable of wiping out human and animal populations across a continent, remains too subtle to be recognized by our current technology. Subsequent portions of the show dramatize the "perfect" impact point where most damage might be wrought concluding with the Nuc. winter as confirmed by dramatic climate change over the next 400 years. Anywho, I hope somebody gets to take in the show and set it to rest as a possible scenario or comments on it. Forgive my longwinded attempt to capsulate the show. I haven't done it justice at any rate.P.S. did anyone get to see any meteors early this morning? Jerry Flaherty----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:58 PMSubject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite FragmentsI know that this thread centers on metal imbedded in some Mammoth tusks BUT I've yet seen where anyone has referred to 1988 archaeologist Bill Topping's find of metal shrapnel found in Clovis Flakes and his unsuccessful attempt to reproduce this kind of event by firing a 12 ga. shotgun filled with tiny metal particles at similar flakes. Nat Geo "Mammoth Mystery". I wish somebody who's seen this show would comment on it's authenticity. As a layperson, I'm impressed but I feel exposed without anyone's criticism or corroboration or commentary.Jerry Flaherty----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:54 PMSubject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite FragmentsHi, Bear in mind that they have found exactly EIGHT mammoth tusks and ONE Siberian bison tusk with this evidence after sorting through a warehouse of mammoth ivory gathered from all over. Again, it's the few and tiny clues in a mountain of potential evidence. Such tusks are relatively plentiful and are in big demand among those who need ivory legitimately in small qualtities, now that ivory is banned. Just go on eBay and search for guitar saddle (and saddle blanks) of "mammoth ivory" and "fossil ivory"! (Fossil walrus tusk is popular, too.) So, all they've found is just the few examples of a rare marker of an event. Viewed that way, it does not seem so unreasonable that there would be a handful of animals at the edge of a blast zone from an airburst that would survive the event but get "peppered." It's not as if all the mammoths of the era were walking around with tusk-wounds and shaking their shaggy heads to stop the ringing in those big ears... Sterling K. Webb -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message ----- From: "tracy latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Meteorite MailingList" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered withMeteorite FragmentsWups! Sounds like I may have inadvertently stepped on some academic toes. I don't mean to accuse the good doctor of faking anything, and apologize if it came out like that. I'm just trying to imagine a cosmic event that would hurl near-microscopic BBs of iron through the atmosphere at meteoric speedwithout reducing them to incandescent vapor, yet have them keep enough inertia and heat to penetrate bone and ivory. Popular cinemarepresentations aside ("Armageddon", anyone?) meteorites that go that fast and are that small are really meteors and burn up before hitting the ground. Slightly bigger bits, a la Holbrook, went into dark/cold flight long beforegetting near the ground. Our atmosphere is a very efficient protection device. Given the extraordinary claim, I'd like extraordinary evidence.Is there a terrestrial phenomenon that would fill the bill, like volcanic ash? Where were the tusks and bones originally found, and in conjunctionwith what sediments/plant matter/snow? Were they on the surface, or didthey have to be excavated, and can their location be revisited for sampling? Have deposits of the smoking iron pellets (okay from now on, I'm just goingto call them Hot Hail, as in the Flash Gordon Emperor Ming device) beenfound elsewhere, in the same manner as the K-T iridium layer? If the HotHail penetrated mammoth tusks, we should find them imbedded in soildeposits, snow layers, and tree trunks from the same era. Did the Hot Hailhave a strewnfield? I know, I know.... too many questions with no theory. Tracy LatimerFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:26 -0600 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mammoths Found Peppered with Meteorite Fragments Hi, List Well, I knew we were going to get back to those mammoth teeth... How about the history of the whole crazy thing? Who is Richard B. Firestone? Firestone is a well-established scientist I think you can dismiss the shotgun theory, really: No Cardiff Giant, no Abominable Snow Man, no fake diamond mine, no Barnum tricks._________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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