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Ancient Crash, Epic Wave
NY Times ^ | November 14, 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE

Posted on 11/14/2006 4:07:33 AM PST by Pharmboy


Dallas Abbott
The Fenambosy chevron, one of four near the tip of Madagascar, is 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean.

At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts.

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The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world’s population, smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at least 600 feet high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of sediment to land.

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Burckle crater has not been dated, but Dr. Abbott estimates that it is 4,500 to 5,000 years old.

snip...He thinks he can say precisely when the comet fell: on the morning of May 10, 2807 B.C.

Dr. Masse analyzed 175 flood myths from around the world, and tried to relate them to known and accurately dated natural events like solar eclipses and volcanic eruptions. Among other evidence, he said, 14 flood myths specifically mention a full solar eclipse, which could have been the one that occurred in May 2807 B.C.

Half the myths talk of a torrential downpour, Dr. Masse said. A third talk of a tsunami. Worldwide they describe hurricane force winds and darkness during the storm. All of these could come from a mega-tsunami.

Of course, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, Dr. Masse said, “and we’re not there yet.”

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KEYWORDS: atlantis; biblicalflood; catastrophism; chevrons; dallasabbott; fenambosychevrons; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; greatflood; impact; madagascar; megatsunami; megatsunamis; meteorimpact; mikebaillie; tsunami; tsunamis
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To: Rockingham; cogitator
Well put.
Shoemaker by Levy
by David H. Levy
(pp 60-61)
In 1950 Worlds in Collision was published, a book that became very popular. Its author, Immanuel Velikovsky, inferred from historical facts and mythology that an unlikely series of comet impacts caused some biblical events, like the Egyptian plagues and the parting of the Red Sea. The details of Velikovsky's ideas were so strongly ridiculed that his theme that impacts have indeed affected the Earth, was clouded and lost.

61 posted on 11/17/2006 10:38:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pharmboy

We had a tsunami here the other day; but I didn't hear about it until after it had passed. Oh well... Maybe next vacation!


62 posted on 11/17/2006 10:42:37 AM PST by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt. (FReeping from Hawaii this week. Aloha!))
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks. I ought to read the book. Gene Shoemaker seems to have been not just a good scientist, but a genuinely good man.


63 posted on 11/17/2006 2:11:41 PM PST by Rockingham
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He was an interesting character, and not least because of the times through which he lived.


64 posted on 11/17/2006 9:59:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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65 posted on 12/07/2006 10:08:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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well if he has enough documented comments from sources on KNOWN events (halley’s comet, maybe or solar eclipses), backtracking to possible dates when given areas of the earth would be under full solar eclipse is fairly easy. I don’t know what his data and options were but it is not impossible that multiple sources hit up as that being the only plausible date given known events mentioned before and after.


66 posted on 05/23/2007 3:10:50 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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67 posted on 08/17/2007 11:04:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, August 17, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society Comet/Asteroid Impacts
and Human Society

ed by Peter T. Bobrowsky
and Hans Rickman

intro (PDF)
due to links here


68 posted on 03/20/2008 7:47:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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69 posted on 08/06/2010 7:05:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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This topic was posted 11/14/2006, thanks Pharmboy. A re-ping to C and GGG lists.



70 posted on 09/06/2021 8:21:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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ICWYDT


71 posted on 09/07/2021 4:54:55 AM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job=only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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72 posted on 09/07/2021 5:31:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The areas around volcanic eruptions are named for Ashland Oil. ;^)

73 posted on 09/07/2021 9:57:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: null and void
LOL.

I saw my post and didn't even remember writing it.

Then, I saw that it was from 2006.

15 years later, and I'm still here!

74 posted on 09/07/2021 12:45:47 PM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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