Posted on 03/10/2020 10:32:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria...
The impact is also believed to have contributed to the extinction of many large animals, including mammoths as well as North American horses and camels.
Experts believe the explosion helped bring about the demise of the North American Clovis culture and usher in an episode of climatic cooling.
The Abu Hureyra site is located on the edge of a vast region known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which incorporates around 30 sites across Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East.
The strewnfield is characterised by signs of massive-scale burning — including a 'black mat' layer that is rich in carbon and platinum and and contains millions of tiny nanodiamonds and tiny metal spheres that must have formed in great heat.
Experts had long wondered if this layer of devastation may have been caused by a catastrophic impact event — a hypothesis supported by the discovery of a contemporaneous impact crater under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland.
In their study, Professor Kennett and colleagues analysed the glass found at Abu Hureyra to determine its composition, structure and likely formation temperature — concluding that it formed at temperatures in excess of 3,992°F (2,200°C).
Such intense heats could not be explained by contemporary human technology — or even lightning or a volcanic eruption.
This conclusion is supported by the presence in the meltglass of minerals rich in chromium, iron, nickel, sulphides, titanium and even platinum and iridium-rich iron.
The team found that the meltglass recovered from the Abu Hureyra site contained both material from the comet, but also vaporised soil, sediments and organic matter from the settlement that cooled nearly instantaneously to form glass.
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Sodom and Gomorrah?
You’re absolutely correct! Glass is nothing but a super cooled liquid.
Man made global warming killed the ice age
Grog: Hey Glub, what that light?
Glub: What li...
They are chariots of fire...
Time travelers lost several dozen cars that day.
“Hot enough to melt cars”
Like the Clovis people were driving SUV’s to the mammoth hunt?
Graham Hancock has been saying this for years.
So this explains why we stopped driving cars 12,000 years ago, but not why it took so long to find the technology again.
Yes silly me :-)
Yes. There remain people who doubt this, but they are not the only formation of that kind. There's a chapter or so about this in the book I linked.
Guffaw. That's not what the headline says.
You’re not fooling me again!
Last time I read a book you suggested, I got it stuck in my head that the original lands of Homer (Iliad and such) was the Nordic lands of the Baltic, and all Indo-European peoples were originally from the arctic area pre-ice age.
I don’t know what kind of crazy you’re trying to stick in my head this time, but I ain’t falling for it, buster!
... So, what else is that book about? Sounds interesting.
Many many Thanks for those posts in 18 and 22 very useful when doing research on this subject.
The Earth cooled without spending any tax money or adopting government regulations. It was a miracle!
It’s about how Homer was actually writing about Precolumbian Amer- uh, I mean, it’s about the Clovis impact. :^)
My pleasure.
Honestly...was its blinker on prior to hit? Cuz if so, maybe Earth should have yielded? Either way, I ended up somehow..12,000 years later...with Doritos..so I’m good.
BFLR
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