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It was God, NOT a *cosmic impact*.
The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated “extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans.”
For Kennett, further proof of the airburst was found by conducting many different kinds of analyses on soil and sediments from the critical layer. Tiny iron- and silica-rich spherules turned up in their analysis, as did melted metals.
“I think one of the main discoveries is shocked quartz. These are sand grains containing cracks that form only under very high pressure,” Kennett said of one of many lines of evidence that point to a large airburst near Tall el-Hammam. “We have shocked quartz from this layer, and that means there were incredible pressures involved to shock the quartz crystals — quartz is one of the hardest minerals; it’s very hard to shock.”
Very interesting article.
The article from SciTechDaily used by Patriot and Liberty is a couple of years old. Here is a link to the original posting from Sept 20 2021, with a byline from UC - Santa Barbara:
Sodom and Gomorrah? Evidence That a Cosmic Impact Destroyed a Biblical City in the Jordan Valley
A second publishing of the same basic article, this time from the Univ of S Carolina, happened on Sept 27 2021:
Fire and Brimstone: A Giant Space Rock Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City and Everyone in It
The second one has better illustrations, at least for my purposes.