[meteorite-list] Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon

2009-12-13 Thread oxytropidoceras
Indian scientists detect signs of life on Moon by Bhargavi Kerur, DNA, Read the World, december 12, 2009 http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_indian-scientists-detect-signs-of-life-on-moon_1322785 Life on the moon, The Irish Times, December 12, 2009

[meteorite-list] Earth's Atmosphere Came from Outer Space

2009-12-12 Thread oxytropidoceras
Earth's Atmosphere Came from Outer Space, Scientists Find Science Daily, Dec. 11, 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091210153538.htm The paper is: Holland, G., Chris J. Ballentine, and Martin Cassidy, 2009, Meteorite Kr in Earth's Mantle Suggests a Late Accretionary Source

[meteorite-list] Four PDF Files of Papers About Asteroid Impact Generated Tsunamis

2009-12-11 Thread oxytropidoceras
The papers are: 1. Tsunami From Asteroid And Comet Impacts: The Vulnerability of Europe by Jack C. Hills and Patrick Goda 2. Asteroid Tsunami Inundation of Japan by Charles L. Mader 3. Modeling The Eltanin Asteroid Tsunami by Charles L. Mader 4. Modeling Asteroid Impact And Tsunami by David

[meteorite-list] Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts

2009-12-08 Thread oxytropidoceras
Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd7.html Australian Spaceguard Survey http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd.html Yours, Paul H. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Reigniting the Cretaceous-Palaeogene firestorm debate

2009-12-02 Thread oxytropidoceras
Belcher, C. M., 2009, Reigniting the Cretaceous-Palaeogene firestorm debate. Geology. vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1147-1148 Abstract and text at: http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/12/1147.full.pdf+html PDF file at: http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/12/1147.full.pdf+html Yours, Paul H.

[meteorite-list] (no subject)

2009-11-22 Thread oxytropidoceras
The current issue, September 2009, issue of Utah Geological Survey has a short popular article about the Upheaval Dom in it: It is: Case, William, 2009, Geosights, Utah's Belly Button, Upheaval Dome. Utah Geological Survey Notes. vol. 41, no. 3, p. 11. PDF file of September 2009 issue at:

[meteorite-list] The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination

2009-11-21 Thread oxytropidoceras
Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions. Science Daily, November 20, 2009 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119194128.htm Other web pages: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoc-pfe111909.php

[meteorite-list] Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Dung Fungus, and Younger Dryas

2009-11-21 Thread oxytropidoceras
New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction, New York Times by Nicholas Wade, November 19, 2009‎ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24fauna.html After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape Science Daily, ‎November 19, 2009,

[meteorite-list] Observations on Age of Carolina Bays

2009-11-15 Thread oxytropidoceras
As I will discuss in a paper that I am preparing, Carolina Bays are not at all difficult to date in terms of their age relative to the Younger Dryas as documented in a number of published, peer- reviewed papers and specific Cultural Resource Management reports. There is a huge amount of

[meteorite-list] Latvia Meteorite Hoax

2009-11-14 Thread oxytropidoceras
Dear Friends, Below are a collection of articles about the Latvia Meteorite Hoax. Geologist: Mazsalaca meteorite in Latvia is man-made, Baltic Course, Oct. 27, 2009 http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/baltic_news/?doc=4078 Mobile Firm Admits 'Meteor' Was A PR Stunt Sky News, Oct. 27, 2009,

[meteorite-list] Is there a search window / search Option for Meteorite Mailing List ?????

2009-11-14 Thread oxytropidoceras
Carl wrote: In [meteorite-list] WHY HELP A DUMB ASS NEWBIE? For those not familiar with Howard's input, please type Howard Steffic in the search window. Did you write Search Window?? Does the Meteorite Mailing list have a search window / way of searching its postings? If so, could

[meteorite-list] Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

2009-11-13 Thread oxytropidoceras
Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months by Kate Ravilious, Nov. 11, 2009, New Scientist Magazine no. 2734, http://tiny.cc/YoungerDryas http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427344.800-mini-ice-age-took-hold-of-europe-in-months.html?full=trueprint=true http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2734

[meteorite-list] Corrected URLs for Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months Post

2009-11-13 Thread oxytropidoceras
The correct URLs for the papers mentioned in Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months post are: Wiersma, A. P., and H. Renssen, 2006, Model-data comparison for the 8.2 ka BP event: confirmation of a forcing mechanism by catastrophic drainage of Laurentide Lakes. Quaternary Science Reviews.

Re: [meteorite-list] YD impact - doing as best they can

2009-11-12 Thread oxytropidoceras
In response to Newly Published Junk Science on Younger Dryas Impact at: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-November/058066.html E.P. Grondine stated: All I can do is re-iterate that there is no reason for several of the peoples to have made up stories of this impact, other

[meteorite-list] Newly Published Junk Science on Younger Dryas Impact

2009-11-11 Thread oxytropidoceras
Dear Friends, Dr. Firestone has outdid himself by publishing what is a rather wretched piece of junk science on the Younger Dryas impact in a new web Journal. This paper is: Firestone, R. B., 2009, The Case for the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event: Mammoth, Megafauna, and Clovis

[meteorite-list] Apologies For Double Posting

2009-11-11 Thread oxytropidoceras
Dear Friends, I apologize for double posting. I double clicked when I should not have. Paul H. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Newly Published Junk Science on Younger Dryas Impact

2009-11-11 Thread oxytropidoceras
Darren Garrison quoted: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 8:21:51 -0500, you wrote: scientists into the validity of Younger Dryas hypothesis. This paper shows the same basic illiteracy in geology and geomorphology that characterizes The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How aStone-Age Comet Changed the Course

[meteorite-list] Sudbury Impact Ended Creation of Banded Iron Formations

2009-11-08 Thread oxytropidoceras
There is a new paper published in the November 2009 issue of Geology that argues that the Sudbury Impact in Canada ended the creation of Banded Iron Formations during the Precambrian. The paper is Slack, J. F. and W. F. Cannon, 2009, Extraterrestrial demise of banded iron formations 1.85

Re: [meteorite-list] Earth giving birth to moon (And Email Posting Test)

2009-11-02 Thread oxytropidoceras
Pete Shugar on Oct. 30, 2009, asked: ] If I have the correct read on the hypothetical the moon would be only 200 ky old Is this enough time for tidal action to bring the moon's rotation to a standstill Just thinking.. No. The trouble is, as other people have pointed out, your

[meteorite-list] Is the K–T boundary now the K–Pg boundary ??

2009-11-02 Thread oxytropidoceras
Dear Listmembers, The people on this list, who work with the K-T Boundary might consider the likelyhood that the recent formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch systems has changes the K-T Boundary to the K-Pg Boundary As discussed by Gibbad et al.

Re: [meteorite-list] Hypervelocity impacts and neutron spallation

2009-11-02 Thread oxytropidoceras
On Oct. 30, 2009 and in Hypervelocity impacts and neutron spallation ( http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057772.html ) E.P. Grondine wrote: This would all be blue sky, but for those 14C spikes... Chris, I think I got the copy of the INTCAL98 chart from one of