A BLAST FROM HEAVEN? (MAJOR IMPACT DISASTER 500 YEARS AGO?)

USNews.com ^ | 8 December 2003 edition | Charles W. Petit

[farmfriend]

science ping

[farmfriend]

you might be interested in this.

[yankeedame]

MAJOR IMPACT DISASTER 500 YEARS AGO?

You mean back in c. 1504 A.D.? This isn't to say there wasn't, only that it must have been a pretty localized "major disater".

[bwteim]

See also

The Mega Tsunami of 1422 - possible scenario

http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/content.asp?EvidenceID=269

[blam]

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around 1178AD

(see post #36)

[PoorMuttly]

*Ping*

[Moonman62]

New Zealand geologist James Goff, a former government researcher, calls Bryant a usually excellent scientist who has "gotten religion" on mega-tsunamis. In a paper just out in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, he rips Bryant's thesis apart.

Reading this I was reminded of Eugene Shoemaker, who I understand also received a lot of grief for his early work on earth impacts.

[blam]

"Ward calculated that an object that leaves a 13-mile-wide crater off New Zealand might send waves washing 100 feet up the Australian coast 1,000 miles away, but not a cliff-scaling 400 feet. "

They found one crater, it's not uncommon for these things to come in swarms. Look for more craters.

[blam]

"you might be interested in this."

Thanks. Please add to the GGG files.

[farmfriend]

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[blam]

Excellent article, thanks

The Altiplano in Bolivia. Lake Titicaca is at the top

[11B3]

How about Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes? When you look at a map of that region (to include the large lakes in Canada), it is impossible to believe that anything else caused them. Photos from space indicate a large object breaking up into many pieces prior to impact. That crater is larger than the one off of Yucatan.

[U S Army EOD]

When did the Little Ice Age start? Could these two events be related? Comments????

[blam]

"When did the Little Ice Age start? Could these two events be related? Comments????"

Little Ice Age 1350AD - 1850AD. Asteroid/comet impacts into water create a warm and wet climate. Impacts on land create a cold and dry climate.

[blam]

"That crater is larger than the one off of Yucatan."

...and it is very, very old. (humans were not around then)

[U S Army EOD]

1000 feet is not very deep, a lot of land matter would be kicked up. Could have been other hits on land. The time frame basically fits give or take a few years.

[RandyRep]

Fascinating site -- more history we were never taught by the Eurocentric education system. The 1421-23 voyages are amazing.

[e_engineer]

I would like to see his calculations.

Just as an impact on land can hurl ejecta for many miles, a large body landing in 1000 ft of water would eject huge volumes of water into the air in all directions. This enormous mass of water would crash back to earth some distance from the impact site, and may greatly amplify the tsunami that propagates along the surface.

In addition, the crater is on the edge of the continental shelf, and it may have caused a large underwater landslide which would also increase the strength of the tsunami.

Here is a map of the area. Notice the underwater shelf (southwest of the South Island) that drops off dramatically toward Australia to the northwest.

[blam]

I just checked the worldwide tree ring data and 540AD (begin the Dark Ages) is the closest event that affected the climate worldwide.