I was thinking that an asteroid hit could cause the huge lava flows like the Deccan or Columbia on the opposite side of the globe from impact.
I know when I was a kid and the IGY provided traction for the plate tectonics theory that it had taken a couple of generations from Wegener to be accepted. Had to get the old professors and their students out of the way I reckon.
The Alvarez guys had quite a battle too, didn’t they?
BTW, I have the Pierce translation of The Oera Linda Book and it puts the sinking of Aldland at 2193 BC.
:’) Wegener’s drift had no evidence in its favor, other than the initial inspiration — that the west coast of Africa looks the concave fit to the east coast of South America. The remanent magnetic fields in rocks at some of the plate boundaries show switches at irregular intervals that were believed to be dateable analogous to the growth rings in trees.
The IGY (which lasted much more than a year, once they got going they couldn’t stop, it transformed the sciences) also turned up the Eltanic impact crater in the southern Pacific, even left the usual iridium traces in the sediment. Eventually beech tree fossils were found in Antarctica, and are dated to less than three million years — meaning that the Antarctic had a climate not dissimilar to what we have here in Michigan, and it stopped sometime in the past few million years.
Tell me more about this Book and 2193 BC. I have read of other evidence of severe living conditions either spreading over or 150 years apart prior to 2000 BC. The Ipuwer papyrus at the Lyden Museum describes the terrible conditions of the 1st Intermediate Period in Egypt. Sunken Civ also brought to our attention the finding of a mile wide crater about 2000 BC in the dried up Iraq Marshes.