Death Valley’s half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater turns out to have been created 800 years ago—far more recently than generally thought. (Credit: Brent Goehring/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Posted on 01/25/2012 2:18:15 PM PST by fishtank
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152516.htm
Death Valley’s half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater turns out to have been created 800 years ago—far more recently than generally thought. (Credit: Brent Goehring/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
boom !
boom !
Yes, and?
And we’re supposed to believe that science is settled that mankind can cause global climate change???
Ha Ha!!
Erroneous dating is quite common. I wonder how agenda- driven those geologists were? This puts another nail in the coffin for science as infallible. Every other day some rebuttal is offered for what was previously well established facts.
“It seems surprising to envision water in this hottest, driest part of North America,...”
One of the largest aquifers in North America is in Death Valley. The entrance to it is called Devil’s Hole.
Ubehebe gives me the hebegebes!
Phreatomagmatic explosion craters are known to be hard to date precisely because there is no clear distinction between the ejecta and the undisturbed country rock, and there is no remelting that would “lock in” a precise geochronometer as in igneous or high temperature metamorphic processes. And yes, I have been to Ubehebe and the lesser nearby crater.
Possibly an already fragile society was affected by this. I do “imagine” that there was an impressive amount of debris and dust cast into the atmosphere and made its way toward them.
Bad moon arising omen to them, possibly.
Most folks do not know that Death Valley in late fall, winter and early spring has some fine weather, Fact is in Winter it can get damn chilly.
It is also an incredible diverse and interesting area with LOADS of history.
Well worth going to and you can rent a car and do a day drive from Vegas and have a great time,
Just saying.
Well.....speaking of the Ubehebe gives me the hebegebes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-gZKRKNy4w&feature=player_embedded
Over in Farmington MN, the trees holding an adobe roof were cut in 1088 IIRC.
Within a few years, the place was deserted.
Severe climate change, well beforde the population explosion and SUVs.
Yeah and almost due east, which is where the prevailing winds blow.
Interesting. I was thinking that with so many different events over the ages, it would be hard to find all of the “rocks” from the various events. Although one would think that the latest and greatest event from 800 years ago would have provided the most rocks? (Unless perhaps it was SO great that most of those rocks ended up in Texas!)
Science is the search for the truth of our physical universe.
As such, it is infallible
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