Is this more Evidence of a Global Destruction, with Comets pounding the earth busting open the great deep and loosening the tectonic plates? ....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,... Genesis 7:11
"The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, also known as Clovis comet hypothesis, posits that the hemisphere-wide debris field of a large, disintegrating asteroid (or comet) struck North America, South America, Europe, and western Asia.
This event triggered extensive biomass burning, brief impact winter, climate change, and contributed to extinctions of late Pleistocene megafauna. Controversial from the time it was proposed, this hypothesis continues to be contested by those who prefer to attribute the end-Pleistocene reversal in warming entirely to terrestrial causes. Now, University of California, Santa Barbara’s Professor James Kennett and co-authors present further geologic and paleontological evidence of the cosmic impact, this time far south of the equator.
The analyses of the Pilauco sediments yielded the presence of microscopic spherules interpreted to have been formed by melting due to the extremely high temperatures associated with impact.
The layer containing these spherules also show peak concentrations of platinum and gold, and native iron particles rarely found in nature.
“Among the most important spherules are those that are chromium-rich,” Professor Kennett said.
“These included a large biomass burning event evidenced by, among other things, micro-charcoal and signs of burning in pollen samples collected at the impact layer.”
“Furthermore, the burning coincides with the timing of major YDB-related burning events in North America and western Europe.”
“The rapidity — — with which the climate shifted is best attributed to impact-related shifts in atmospheric systems, rather than to the slower oceanic processes,” Professor Kennett said." SciNews
"The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, also known as Clovis comet hypothesis, posits that the hemisphere-wide debris field of a large, disintegrating asteroid (or comet) struck North America, South America, Europe, and western Asia.
This event triggered extensive biomass burning, brief impact winter, climate change, and contributed to extinctions of late Pleistocene megafauna. Controversial from the time it was proposed, this hypothesis continues to be contested by those who prefer to attribute the end-Pleistocene reversal in warming entirely to terrestrial causes. Now, University of California, Santa Barbara’s Professor James Kennett and co-authors present further geologic and paleontological evidence of the cosmic impact, this time far south of the equator.
The analyses of the Pilauco sediments yielded the presence of microscopic spherules interpreted to have been formed by melting due to the extremely high temperatures associated with impact.
The layer containing these spherules also show peak concentrations of platinum and gold, and native iron particles rarely found in nature.
“Among the most important spherules are those that are chromium-rich,” Professor Kennett said.
“These included a large biomass burning event evidenced by, among other things, micro-charcoal and signs of burning in pollen samples collected at the impact layer.”
“Furthermore, the burning coincides with the timing of major YDB-related burning events in North America and western Europe.”
“The rapidity — — with which the climate shifted is best attributed to impact-related shifts in atmospheric systems, rather than to the slower oceanic processes,” Professor Kennett said." SciNews