The First Nations do not recall any extraterrestrial projectile being involved in the collapse of Lake Agassiz, this lake bursted its banks due to overflow problems and the permafrost ice melting away within its moraine banks that had held back the water. The lake had - on several previous occasions - posed problematic floods prior to the catastrophic collapse to St. Lawrence. If so, a whole swarm of comets would have had to fall one after another to Lake Agassiz, a good sci-fi theory, which makes all the First Nations' people to laugh at this perceived "scientific wisdom" of the white American scientists.
We propose that the micro-diamond dust was formed in the on-shore and off-shore methane clathrate explosions as permafrost and sea beds melted, events like redirected rivers running over ice-and-permafrost covered gas fields, and the Arctic sea bed methane clathrate explosions and the immense heat and pressures in the fireballs creating the diamond dust. We are propose that the Lake Cheko in Tungusga is an on-shore methane explosion crater site and in June 1908 there were an ice dam that redirected the spring flood and river water to cross over a permaforst held gas field, the roof melting and giving in. The gas integrity failure occurred, the gas coming out and the huge river falling in and the methane laden water accummulated nucleating and releasing methane and carbon dioxide. We have also looked possibility to carry out expedition to Lake Cheko to measure whether its conical deep water basin is methane and carbon dioxide laden and seeded by organic methane or volcanic methane (there are some old volcanism also in the area). Lake Kiwu is another saturated lake laden with enormous amount of dissolved methane and carbon dioxide that could nucleate like soda water. Michel Halbwachs is an expert in mitigating this type risk and I have already suggested him to come to the Arctic region to have a look at deep water pockets as methane clathrates disintgrate and the released their methane which is also partially converted by microbes to carbon dioxide, the sudden nucleation of this mixture causing a possibility of large scale fatal suffocation and explosions as seen on the 22,000 craters dotting the sea beds of Siberia, some of the gas pockets being on land and held together only by layers of ice and permafrost mud that easily ruptures if flood occurs, or the continued loss of permafrost weakens the ceiling of the cavities. The west Siberian gas fields are better mapped and well depleted by extractive industries whereas on the eastern Russia, the lay out and distribution of methane pockets are still quite unknown as they are economically difficult to develop and have not attracted the interest of the extractive industries. At Campaing agaist Climate Change meeting at London School of Economics, Russian government had suggested that gas field containment integrity failures could soon lead to gas distribution problems to Europe as the gas leaks directly out to the birds rather than runs into gas pipes if the ceilings of some of their fields weaken further by the permafrost thinning. When Caspian Sea heading water was redirected in 1950's to fill reservoir, massive 500 meter tall methane flarings started to occur, all these stuff may create microdiamons by heat and the pressures and we do not need a chain of comets to fall Lake Agassiz. John Nissen: P.S. I was interested in Alvia's point about lake Agassiz dam being bust by meteors (or comet), and found this reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/science/02impact.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=nanodiamonds&st=cse ----- Original Message ----- From: Alvia Gaskill Various theories have been advanced for the collapse of the ice dam, but the most likely one now seems to be a comet strike in eastern Canada that also caused massive wildfires, killing off most of the large mammals in N. America along with the Clovis people of New Mexico. Soot and quartz particles found at the proposed impact site seem to confirm an extraterrestrial source of the event. There is no evidence that Greenland was affected by the comet strike. The explanation for the much shorter cooling period of around 8000 years ago also seems to be related to a discharge from Lake Agassiz, although that one is also still debated. _________________________________________________________________ Celebrate a decade of Messenger with free winks, emoticons, display pics, and more. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
