[Pharmboy]

As the article says, not all the geologists are buying into this. The big question is: where's the crater(s)?

[Pharmboy]

Global cooling ping...

[gimme1ibertee]

Diamonds...They don’t call them “ice” for nothin’.

[vox_freedom]

Another bit of “inconvenient” evidence to suggest Gore’s theories on global warming are a pile o crap.

[cripplecreek]

Small crystals equal rapid cooling, large crystals equal slow cooling.

Sience class wasn’t a total waste.

[marktwain]

Isn’t this an incorrect usage of the term eon? I thought an eon was composed of more than one geological age...

Well, it is the NYT, so I guess I should not expect much.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Mercury News has a very similar article today that hypothesizes that a large comet exploded above ground, hence no crater.

It's well known that a meteorite colliding with Earth is considered the most likely reason dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago. Now a team of scientists says it has found new evidence that a comet triggered a similar extinction much more recently: just 13,000 years ago, when humans were around to witness the event and suffer its terrible consequences.

The researchers think the comet exploded above the planet's surface, ultimately killing off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other large mammals that roamed North America.

The scientists, led by University of Oregon anthropologist Douglas Kennett, say their report offers up a "smoking bullet" — proof that a comet set off the sudden, thousand-year freeze and wiped out the big animals of the era.

[null and void]

Diamonds are forever...

[Smedley]

Usually a surface current of warm water flows northward in the Atlantic toward Greenland and Europe, then cools and sinks, returning south in the deep ocean. But the fresh water, which is less dense, blocked the sinking of the cold, salty water in the North Atlantic, disrupting the currents.

How can "less dense" fresh water block the sinking of cold, salty water? Higher density fluids sink relative to other fluids. Is this New York Slimes science, or am I missing something?

[SkyDancer]

Thought that heat and pressure made diamonds ... a diamond is nothing but a lump of coal that stuck with it

[SunkenCiv]

Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
Chicago Tribune | January 2, 2009 | Robert Mitchum
Posted on 01/01/2009 2:09:17 PM PST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157352/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

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[TXnMA]

Ping to yet another nanodiamond, "black mat", Younger Dryas, Clovis extinction, etc. thread...

(In the meantime, I've been using Google Maps to look at lots of "Carolina Bays" in the Myrtle Beach, SC area...)

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[norwaypinesavage]

Eons ago? 13000 years isn’t even roundoff error on the “eon scale”.

[Lee N. Field]

The big question is: where's the crater(s)?

There's plenty of craters. Earth Impact Database. (Interesting website to peruse. Just FYI, the biggest is the Vredefort ring, in South Africa. 300km across.)