[meteorite-list] Sparkly rain

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <237907.49322.qm_at_web33105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

This is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read.
Did the impact throw fish in the air too? I wonder if that is how trout ended up in every lake in Arizona?
Michael Farmer


--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] More golden showers
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 10:36 PM
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html
>
> Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age
>
> Monday , July 07, 2008
> By Ker Than
>
> LS
> ADVERTISEMENT
>
> Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United
> States might have
> rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered
> over Canada and set
> North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of
> animals and humans.
>
> New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in
> Ohio and Indiana
> reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada
> several thousand years
> ago. The question is, how?
>
> "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that
> anyone knows of, but there
> are plenty of them in Canada," said retired
> geophysicist Allen West, who was
> involved in the study.
>
> The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West
> and colleagues that a
> 3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets
> in eastern Canada
> about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.
>
> "These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas
> going off at once," said
> West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a
> century ago possibly
> caused by a fragmenting meteor.
>
> Precious rain
>
> The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into
> the air during the
> blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by
> rivers formed from
> the meltwater of liquified glaciers.
>
> For several months following the comet strike, the skies
> rained precious stone
> and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled
> down by the tons.
>
> "Some of them you couldn't see, and animals
> would've been breathing them in,"
> West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly
> have been visible. They
> might've even hurt if they hit you."
>
> The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and
> dropped like hail stones
> within seconds of the blasts, West said.
>
> The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold
> viruses," would have lingered in the
> atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to
> Earth like expensive
> snowflakes.
>
> Killed man and beast
>
> Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked
> forests fires around
> the globe, West contends.
>
> The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire.
> North America's
> grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of
> humans ? all would have
> been set ablaze.
>
> West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike
> contributed to the
> extinction of several species of North American megafauna,
> including mammoths
> and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis
> culture, a Stone Age
> people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.
>
> The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts
> of fresh water to be
> dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting
> currents and prompting a
> sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.
>
> "The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that
> climate change at the end
> of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic
> event," said study team
> member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University
> of Cincinnati.
>
> While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent
> with the theory of a
> comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West
> cautions that it is not
> a "smoking gun."
>
> "We're a long way from saying categorically that
> these things got here because
> of this event," West said. "They're
> consistent, but we've got a lot more work to
> do to show there's a direct connection."
>
> The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a
> scientific journal.
>
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