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 worlds 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 were not there yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Shoemaker by LevyIn 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.
by David H. Levy
(pp 60-61)
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!
Thanks. I ought to read the book. Gene Shoemaker seems to have been not just a good scientist, but a genuinely good man.
He was an interesting character, and not least because of the times through which he lived.
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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.
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The areas around volcanic eruptions are named for Ashland Oil. ;^)
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!
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