Hi guys! I'm an author on this paper! Andrew Moore was approached by the CRG because Abu Hureyra was known to span the YD boundary. When analysis revealed impact proxies, Moore revisited prior interpretations of the site such as a burn layer he previously thought was odd but attributed to cooking fires. There are 5 papers on Abu Hureyra. Bunch et al. 2012, Moore et al. 2020 and Moore et al. 2023a, 2023b, 2023c. There are more than 120 papers supporting the YDIH and about 70 criticising it. All can be read on the comprehensive YDIH bibliography on Cosmic Tusk.
the lack of shocked quartz has been the main whipping stick of the old guard. so imo, this is probably a seminal paper to acceptance of YDIH. congratulations!
@Eyes_Open I wrote a 50,000 word thesis that serves as a rebuttal, though without addressing it head on for the most part. You can read it on Graham Hancocks website. Tere is also a comprehensive rebuttal directly addressing their paper line by line currently in press in a peer reviewed journal, of which I am also a coauthor.
Earth Science Reviews, where the 'comprehensive rebuttal' is published, refused to give us more than 5000 words to respond to their 96000 word ad hominem
@littlefish9305 When history looks back on this affair it will be considered a seminal paper, but because the shock evidence we see at the YDB is essentially a new form, we still have an uphill battle for widespread acceptance.
This is where I come to when I want to listen to two intelligent, funny people talking and discussing interesting topics. Half the time I've no idea what you're talking about, the other half I'm so fascinated by you two talking, that I can't listen. 😅 I'm always pleased though when I get a notification. And I know that any comment helps the channel grow. I'm sorry I have nothing more intelligent to contribute to the discussion though.
There is not one unintelligent viewpoint when talking about the universe. Plus, I don't get the hype of trying to understand it all. Knowledge is not a thing that keeps me up at night 😂
As a retired geologist, I have worked in impact structures and re-stratigraphic sediments with mineralization and have also learned the trade in the very glacial domains of Scandinavia, Greenland, and New Zealand, a hypothesis saying that globally affected geological and astronomical events is nothing new, there has been deep correlations of such events, like the Tunguska event around 1908. One of my professors in paleontology, Björn Kurtén, from Åbo, voiced ideas that interstadial changes did affect our forefathers, proven by Svante Pääbo et al. Why is this a discussion, meteorites and vulcanism has through all of the planet's history altered the life conditions. Look at the Lockne crater southeast of Östersund; there exists a fossil of an octopus getting a part of the meteorite in its head. Also, during the Ice Age, Sahara was a flourishing Eden, now dried out. What happened to those animals and humanoids. Something happened in Syria during the same period, younger Dryas, forcing a new way of life. A correlation between the dry out of the Saharas and changes in the levant might been ONE of the causes, astroblemes another. I people fights about such, then we are in a bad way. Nils-Axel Mörners Gothenburg theory about the earth magnetics might be a clue, though he was wrong at times and right in others.
@@christianbuczko1481 "Was a Nuclear Holocaust" it created the trinitite glass, the glass is found in a area of 6k sq miles, a f4000degree asteroid can't foot it with a Million Degree Nuke . so fgullible can't you think for yourself Dude
@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer who said 30mil years?? I was referring to an event which left dessert glass on the surface of the dessert, which means its very recent, as in less than 12,000 years old, possibly from the younger dryas events infact. The reason for that idea is that the dessert wasnt always a dessert, 12,000 years ago it was green, meaning there would be evidence of carbon, and the fact the glass is found on the surface, not from deep down also suggests its relatively recent.
Prof Vance Haynes said that the megafauna were all extinguished in less than a century. If true, that is not predation, as some claim, that is something sudden, like an impact. R
@@dustydesert1674 When did the mammoths go extinct? In all regions at the same time? Extinctions were happening thousands of years apart for some species as per current understanding.
You guys are the best. I can and do watch Standing with Stones over and over again. Great for both inspiration and relaxation. Best natural ASMR documentary. Maybe it’s the bagpipes! Please keep doing what you’re doing.
I'm certainly not an expert but my understanding about 'shocked' quartz is that the intense pressure wave actually shocked the crystal structure of quartz to a high-pressure form; quartz occurs naturally in several crystal forms (technical names) depending on the T/P* situation of formation. Hope that makes sense. * temperature/pressure
I've been learning a bit of geology and there are so incredibly many forms of silicate rocks... I had to check, shocked quartz is high pressure but not high temp. Discovered during atomic testing, found in impact craters but also caused by lightning strikes so you also need mineral evidence to confirm impact events.
Mr. George Howard Dr. Allen West Dr. Malcolm LeCompte Dr. Ted Bunch Dr. Christopher Moore Dr. James Kennett Dr. Richard Firestone Dr. Wendy Wolbach Mr. Marc Young Dr. James Wittke Dr. Douglas Kennett Dr. Adrian Melott Mr. Adrienne Stich Dr. Albert C. Goodyear Dr. Andrei Kurbatov Dr. Andrew M.T. Moore Dr. Andrew Parnell Dr. Al Smith Dr. William Topping Dr. Brendan Culleton Dr. Brian Thomas Dr. Carl P. Lipo Mr. Charles Kinzie Dr. Chris C.R. Allen Dr. Chris Mercer Mr. Clay Swindell Dr. David Ferraro Dr. Dale Batchelor Dr. David H. Krinsley Mr. David Kimbel Dr. Eric K. Richman Some of the amazing Researchers who make up the Comet Research Group - Very encouraged to see you feature this paper, as I know they work so hard and justly deserve attention! CONGRATULATIONS on your New Milestone, more encouraging signs... amidst some of the madness that is enveloping the world - even of Our Past and History itself.
@@swirvinbirds1971 I.e., never trust any authors of any papers? All papers are published by people demonstrating their hypothesis. The people to distrust in this instance are Boslough, Surovell, and Holliday, who are actively destroying their hard-earned reputations. Surovell is still a Clovis-firster. Boslough has become obsessed and does no real work anymore. The real mystery is why. Can it all be Hancock Derangement Syndrome?
Ah, yes, science at work. As a PhD chemist, I’ve been involved in or spectator to a variety of controversies and the factions, papers, talks and personalities involved. I’m reminded of a Max Planck quote “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
I mean, yes and no. Tesla didn't give credence to Einstein's work on relativity. He didn't even believe in electromagnetic wave theory or electrons. Curious for someone working as an electrical engineer and attempted radio maker 😂🤣 A fairly strong consensus within the community of physicists was reached on relativity in Einstein's lifetime.
Once again 9:37 a good discussion, punctuated by your signature sense of humor. I really enjoy this channel in the midst of the kitchen middens of some individual’s flights of fancy. The mention of Abu Hureyra really caught my attention. Years ago I took an upper division course in Soil Science which I found unexpectedly fascinating. Before we got to the nitty gritty of soil composition, we spent the exploration of several chapters on the development of agriculture. One of the sites they focused on was Abu Hureyra and it’s proximity to the species of wild grains that became domesticated, although stands of wild ancestors i.e emmer and einkorn still exist in the area. The text book was quite old even when I took the course because the village site still existed on its ancient location. I still have that book. It was well regarded at the time and quite carefully written to avoid any leaps of the imagination. And as a result of the course I think anyone doing archeological digs would benefit from even a bit of soil science.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, usually it's a duck!!! Why the vitriolic abhorrent opposition to what the facts are indicating, all the ducks line up in a neat little row if you just will look at the obvious evidence, then it all makes sense, Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is usually the right one, that's what we go with in science, what is most likely, and a series of air-burst impacts with a few actually making contact with the ice sheets explains so much, the heat paradox of the former ice age, the massive influx of fresh melt-water, the plummeting of global temps due to the shutting down of the "great ocean conveyor system", shocked quartz and nano-diamonds, Carolina Bays impact proxies that fan out from Saginaw Bay, the Greenland impact crater which has almost exactly 13000 years of new unfractured ice and snow above it. The black mat found at countless sites all over the world dating right to 12,800 ybp, the end of Clovis, and so many other cultures across the globe. Abrupt abandonment of site previously occupied for millennia, evidence of catastrophic floods worldwide, but especially in the American west. So many points that all line up to a massive series of impacts that likely occurred in 2 distinct periods, one around 12800 ypb and a second around 11600 ybp, but for 1200 years there may have been frequent impacts, but with the 2 meltwater pulses it may point to 2 significant impact events, the last of which was around 9600 BCE. So much evidence to dispute with no alternative explanations. It boggles the mind why someone would continue to be so adamant about disputing this "theory" I think at this point it should be accepted as actual fact and universally studied to find out the how, why, when, and wheres etc... so we can properly prepare to defend ourselves from the next one, why is this so hard for people to understand and accept???
Denial of one’s life long education starting to fracture, transitions into ideology, we can observe the evidence of this popping up all over the world…
I don't understand either. It is clearly in mythology, I don't know how everyone missed it. The Mesoamericans sacrificed humans to the Feathered Serpent, from the most recent meteor stream's radiant, so that it would not take the Sun away, again, for long periods of time, Impact Winters. The incredulousness is so persuasive that I have had to research Psychology to understand denial. I am just about convinced it is a genetic memory of the traumas. We know the story : The Shinning Hero fighting the Dragon to save the Maiden. It is in Little Red Riding hood also, as the Woodsman cuts out of the Wolf, the grandma, mom, and the kid, symbolizing the Ages of Man, or The Suns of America.
They still have hard time admitting they were wrong about cities and people in the Amazon. Impact modeling with multiple meteors made the most sense to me.
I postulate that there is an agenda, perhaps unrecognized, that wishes to believe that man is in charge and has full control. Extraterrestrial events, for the most part, are out of our control.
I will continue to keep an open mind since I have no expertise in this field. I will wait for experts to go over this paper and hash it out. I love this about science.
I actually hate this about science. because many times someone gets the correct answer the first time, but (especially now in modern academia as most "scientists" are just beauracrats masquerading as scientists... and have no interest in truth seeking. instead they are much more consumed with reputation, career, and money) some butt-hurt "scientist" goes about not disproving the first paper, but merely casting doubt upon it by claiming "method inconsistenty" or some other bs. never actually showing why their paper is wrong, but merely throwing enough shade to cause an inkling of doubt because their methodology wasn't 100% all encompassing, or that another way to check something may exist. the entire point is to just keep someone else from getting recognition
Check out Antonio Zamora's youtube videos on this. According to his work, more than one comet fragment hit the Laurentide icesheet around the Great Lakes in the USA. This impact led to the formation of the Carolina Bays and Nebraska Rainwater Basins (secondary ice bolder impacts) in the USA and wiped out the North American mega fauna.
@@sciptick Incorrect. Check out his videos. It gets into age dating as well and the incorrect procedures that have been used in dating. A lot has to do with the overturn of the crater lip and where samples have been obtained.
@@justmenotyou3151 thank you. people don't realize that you cannot date ice boulder impacts by soil date testing alone! Zamora is correct and the YDIH group cannot handle admitting they got it WRONG.
@@sciptick I am sorry, but the disappearance of all megafauna in North America and the evidence of tens of thousands of craters radiating outward from a relatively common source is FAR too coincidental to be discounted.
Basic science fan/average Joe. Maybe due to the fact of watching The Why Files or reading other publications, I find myself to be a fan of the YDIH. To me, it just makes sense.
My own take on the Younger Dryas climate change is a Comet (or loosely held assemblage of debris) was pulled apart in the earth’s gravity field with many pieces raining down across a global swath. The resulting platinum, iridium, micro spheres, micro diamond, deposits combined with global fire storms in the same strata marks the impact event that triggered the collapse of the AMOC water current that keeps Northern Europe warm and thereby greatly reduces ice that reflects solar radiation (a self perpetuating cold that continued until the AMOC was restored 1000 years later.
There's a formula to give an age range to moon craters based on how many smaller craters have formed within them, it's very low resolution compared to our modeling of Earth's history. Maybe rovers could attempt to "match" craters with mineral analysis in the future though, which could in turn make the crater dating formula more accurate... very cool to think about
Thank you guys for discussing this hypothesis, this one could be coming home, please look at the black Matt layer, it could be very significant, fringe/ citizen science can on occasion have relevance subject to scientific peer review naturally.
I grew up in South Carolina USA, and your discussion just reminded me of the thousands of half-mile or mile-wide shallow craters of the costal low-lands there, called "Carolina Bays". From the ground, you just think they are swamps and earth berms; but from an airplane survey, like in the 1930s first aerial pictures, they quickly stand out as shallow impact craters, with debris in them dated at 12,500 years old (when rocks or ice boulders the size of big buildings fell from the sky).
In North America, 12,900 years ago also marks a time of human cultural change-from very large Clovis blade technology to Folsom tools. The changeover is associated with a change in the size of hunted mammalian prey & final disappearance of megafauna other than bison. The much disdained Solutrean hypothesis, though, proposed very similar events as the recent claims you discuss about the YDIH-widespread forest fires and disappearance of the proposed Solutreans who are proposed to have reached North America across the ice-congested North Atlantic from the extended coastline of Pleistocene France/Spain after around 19,000 ya. As long as we keep talking about the possibilities, we’ll keep extending the research to find out more about the wonders of the human race.
Yes, too many Flint hand tools, found from 12,000 years ago to 33,000, & then a SEVER GAP OF 100,000'S of years we find a unknappable assortment of Quarzatite; (Chalcedony) ones?
There is no direct connection between Solutreans and the North American Clovis industry. However, the 5000 years between their invention in Europe and Clovis points turning up in North America is plenty of time for people carrying the invention to migrate incrementally all the way across Asia and then into North America, bringing their tool industry with them. If true, it will take a century of archaeology to prove it.
@caroletomlinson5480 = _"...the proposed Solutreans who are proposed to have reached North America across the ice-congested North Atlantic from the extended coastline of Pleistocene France/Spain after around 19,000 ya. "_ - - - - - I understand what you are saying, all except for the fact that there is no evidence to support your claim, not even DNA.
@@caroletomlinson5480 Laughable? Less likely than independent invention, but still possible. What is laughable is people in North America sitting on Solutrean industry for 5000 years and then beginning to use it after it has disappeared from Europe.
No he does not. He ignores dating work, has an ejecta curtain that dwarfs even the Chicxulub crater, has never even shown an impactor can create a perfect mathematical ellipse, yet alone the bays themselves show everything from wind migration (GPR imaging of Herdron Bay) to undisturbed sediments under the bays showing no impact formation. The Geomodels has some really good videos on the Carolina Bays. Curious Being, although I disagree with her Ancient lost civilization stuff, also has a good video about the Carolina Bays.
@@swirvinbirds1971 I think the minimal work performed on the raised rims is consistent with his dating modeling. The ice is a different beast from the rocks outskirting Chixulib, thus, the wider curtain cannot be discounted for this reason, its cannonball trajectories. Zamora does some field work on the wind erosion proposed by Prince in river beds that lends to his consistency as well, but, the issue is dynamic, despite this aspect of statics where the center of the target is dismissed. Is thatore willy nilly than true recorded history of the outlying areas? There is an enormous amount of shared consistency in the alignments in the central regions, so, why they are called Carolina Bays and not Georgia Bays? Pointing to an energy equation that seems to be a singular blast rather than spread out has the center of the target in its sights, I think. Accounting is not all discounnting.
@@RobertMStahl His dating modeling? He is a computer science guy with no expertise in the field and in no way a Geologist. Minimal work? Lots of dating work has been done. What's minimal is dating work that would agree with Zamora of which there is none. We have impact ejecta curtains on the Mars ice cap and they are nowhere near the size of this proposed ejecta curtain in relation to the crater and Mars has a much thinner atmosphere. Btw they are called different things in different areas and their morphology changes as well. In Maryland, they are called Maryland basins. Within the Delmarva Peninsula, they and other coastal ponds are also called Delmarva bays. The word Carolina Bays evolved in papers studying the Bays in Carolina.
@@RobertMStahl lots of work have been done on the sand rims and the fact that they migrate. Dating work on the sand rims show bay migration. You can find these same raised sand rims on Thermokarst Lakes as well.
Hi guys, great talk. I have a background in historic geology, though being more of a generalist then a specialist. I've always favored the impact hypothesis, based on the evidence presented. To me, another aspect is the number of extraterrestrial impacts Earth has experienced. It's more then just a few. In a way it's like extinction events. Most know of the "Big 5" extinction events, which leaves out the largest of all, the Great Oxygenation Catastrophe that occurred around 2.5 billion years ago. Plus there are other events, like the Chesapeake Bay Bolide, which likely contributed to the Eocene-Oligocene Extinction about 33 million years ago, and gave the U.S. it's largest impact crater. Many are unaware of that impact, the immense crater it formed, and the related extinction.
One of the best recent indie prehistory news pods out there if not, the best. And all thanks to a couple of bumbling old tech fogeys! Who wouldve thought
One of your best, guys. Just subscribed. Being Scots, I thought that the Younger Dryas was named (at least in part) after a member of the Younger family, famous brewers of fine ales, and creators of the Younger Botanic Gardens at Benmore. Hmmm, maybe I now need to start hunting for the Older Botanic Gardens....
For me there are lessons here. It’s amazing that the evidence for something that must of been so unimaginably violent has been so easy to miss and is still controversial. One lesson is that the clues may be difficult to establish. The other lesson is that once you start stepping on toes, even professionals can act in ways that are inexcusable.
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There is a crater in Greenland, but it's dated to 50 odd mya. What impact mechanism would cause a cooling for so long and just as quick warming at the end?
Dating on Hiawatha is far from secure. It amounts to wishful thinking by a some who wish the YD-coincident impact were not proven, and wish that proof depended on a connection to Hiawatha.
I have to say that as an archaeologist, I have always preferred "all of the above." All of the various "explanations" have some sound reasons for thinking they may hold some support. Also, there is the recent impactite discovery in Chile that is about the right age.
Dryas is named for a tiny arctic flower, Dryas octopetala. As was just mentioned by our host. I had looked it up! And as to memories…you both have a lot of info in your heads, not surprising you’d forget Dryas octopetala. 😝
Great video. Thanks for explaining the name, Younger Dryas, too. Curious, then, why the flower was named that, I ran into a bunch of Greek mythology with several characters cited but most depicting him as a spectacular warrior. Which makes sense if you're a tough little flower growing on glaciated terrain.
I like pre-history. Once you have studied most of what there is to know about written histories from the Persian Empire to the British Empire there is nothing new left to learn except pre-history.
@@qui-gonjay2944 - Solar events are brief, like the last one that only effected the atmosphere for a few days. Full solar cycles last from 9-14 years; solar maximum lasts about 2-ish years. The Younger Dryas period lasted from about 200-400 years.
thank you. If the scientists, who studied those things thoroughly have such different opinions on 'what really happened' (they even fight eachother!), I don't feel bad about having my own opinions 😊
Possible craters have been found in several places in Canada. They appear shallow as you would expect in these circumstances. I read the papers that mentioned this years ago but I think it was Firestone and West et al.
@@donhillsmanii5906 everyone please look up Antonio Zamora's channel and watch his content, he explains all of this perfectly with his glacier ice impact hypothesis.
Meteor or not, the YD was definitely a global catastrophe that had people everywhere transitioning from good food (big game essentially) to much lower quality food: mollusks in Europe, acorns in North Africa (causing a horrible epidemic of cavities) and grass, almost literally "grass" (that's what cereals are), in the Fertile Crescent from Sudan to the Zagros. Places like Ireland saw their climate radically change from modern temperatures to Greenland-like ones in a matter of months. Some sort of catastrophe it was definitely. If it was indeed caused by a meteorite or comet impact, for which there is at least some serious evidence, I lean towards but unsure.
Read The Comet Research Group Publications, it is assuredly space fall proxies covering 1/3 of the globe. There were hippo's in the Saudi Arabian Peninsula just prior.
How do you explain the warming of the Southern Hemisphere while the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere dropped? A change in the "Atlantic meridional overturning circulation" can easily explain both conditions and is something that we may be facing again in the not too distant future. With the disruption of the circulation, the Gulf Stream will cease bringing warm water north nd cause significant cooling.
@@MossyMozart - Not sure, it's something I was unaware of before you asked. But after a cursory search I found that a 2021 paper on moa paleo-ecology in NZ (Richard N Holdaway, "Palaeobiological evidence for Southern Hemisphere Younger Dryas and volcanogenic cold periods") seems to contradict the previous papers (Kaplan 2010 and Carlson 2013) that claimed that there was a warming instead (based on glacial retreat in a key paleoclimate research site also in NZ). Per the moa ecology paper, NZ experienced cooling for all the YD period, just as Europe. Anyway, the meteor and the oceanic stream system shift are not in contradiction: a meteor could hardly cause a thousand-years-long climate shift like that... but it could devastate some glaciers pouring massive amounts of cold freshwater into the North Atlantic and radically disrupting the AMOC (Gulf Stream system). The persistance of this short ice age clearly indicates that it was not just the meteor and maybe it would have happened anyhow without it, that the North American ice shelf suddenly pouring into the North Atlantic was the real cause of the YD. However this pouring may have been triggered by a meteor anyhow.
@@MossyMozart "How do you explain"... Maybe the global climate is a _complicated subject,_ often involving counterintuitive effects? Big events often produce big changes that cause further big changes, some of which might be in ocean circulation. Anybody pretending to know all about how climate works is visibly pretending, and maybe wishing. Wishing is incompatible with science. Stop wishing.
I would welcome a session about Tim Rowe's securely-dated 37kyo Hartley mammoth site. Everybody seems just as afraid to mention it as they are the comet strike.
So many channels want a like and subscribe at the very beginning of the video, before you have seen what the video holds. And for those who are first time viewers of the channel. It is absurd to like or subscribe, when you haven’t seen the video and don’t know if you like or agree with the content, which may lead you to a subscription.
I thought the Younger Dryas impact was postulated to be on or over the Laurentian Ice Sheet near Lake Michigan.. There are debris impacts in Kansas and the Carolina Banks.
Sorry, no there are not. The Carolina bays and Nebraska ponds are way too old to be connected. And the notion of ice chunks being hurled intact, not shattering to powder, is just silly.
I imagine it’s passing through a comet tail. In Earth high altitude, like the plasma burn in a pulverised coal blasted furnace. That is in constant intense glow. Being in Power station experience . The evidence logically backs this even stronger hypothesis.
A comet's tail is not going to cause any damage to Earth. It's just widely dispersed dust. Neither would it produce some of the items you were talking about like shocked quartz and microspherules. Those would be the result of an actual collision.
the remnants of comet encke have laid down debris and dust in an earth crossing orbit which the earth still encounters today. some of that "dust" is substantial and threatening to life on earth. bolide airbusts produce extreme pressure and temperatures many times hotter than the sun.
I may be behind a bit, but they do not seem to consider the possible impact site on the N end of Greenland, still covered in ice now, but drains out impact-related material. Can't recall the paper now, but these guys don't seem to have seen that?
One of the lead scientists on the CRG is Firestone - very appropriate. Victor Clube and Bill Napier and their book Cosmic Serpent opened many eyes to the possibility of impact events affecting myths and history. Melting huge volumes of ice at zero degrees centigrade to water at zero degrees centigrade takes a lot of energy and explaining the heat input for the melt water pulse at that time is difficult to explain but impacts are a potential way to achieve that result.
If rye was a viable crop during the YD , just imagine those poor people having to drink Canadian whiskey for a thousand years. The suffering! And I'm Canadian by the way. Love your channel and her's a single malt to 100,000.
Randall Carlson is not attached to Hancock, as some might imply. They intersect in theories, but differ in others. The Comet Research group is not attached to Carlson. Intersection does not imply cloning or mirroring as bedfellows. I don't agree with everything anyone theorizes as a whole, even when the bits and bobs have evidence. Lumping the outliers into a category to chastise, only shows your personal limitations to learn new things. Science eventually chastises the chastisers. Thanks for bring up some new information to some, and extant information to myself. Well lit.
@@TGBurgerGamingCarlson IS NOT A SCIENTIST. He is an ARCHITECT. Turn off Randall Carlson and turn on Nick Zentner to learn how Randall is a fool or simply a con man.
I've read two books about the Carolina Bays, elliptical depressions who's long axes intersect in the Ice sheets of northern North America and Greenland. I've also seen mentions of a possible crater detected under Greenland's ice sheet. The depressions most common in the Carolina area also extend as far west as Nebraska(?); are these all connected?
@@littlefish9305 - The eastern coastal plain depressions range from New York to Florida. They are circular to elliptical in shape. (If made by large incoming debris from somewhere up north, wouldn't they be oval instead?) Bays were dated in the Carolinas and Georgia, as can be found in a certain online encyclopedia: _"The dating of the sand rims of a number of Carolina bays by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques has yielded ages ranging from ~109,000 to ~2,000 years ago, but most ages from the sand rims range from ~40,000 to ~11,000 years ago._" Nebraska's Rainwater Basins range in shape from irregular, circular, semi-elliptical, elliptical, to lunette ridges. Their age ranges from 28,000 to 50,000 years BP.
LOL ... the pushback about Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis seems to be due to an offshoot hypothesis that Cromagnon emigrated from Europe to the Americas along the ice margains and were later wiped out by the impact. As I understand it - some have looked at the Clovis points and said those look like an improved version of the spear points found in Europe and it spread around. On the Younger Dryas Impact - I have heard arguments on both sides and I am confused.
@@AustinKoleCarlisle To be honest it might not -be - and I am an outsider looking in so I have no specific knowledge other than videos reguritating others writings. The very first time I heard about either they were connected - where the North American Solutreans were wiped out by the Younger Dryas impact. The arguments against impact theory are so vehement; it reminds me of the arguments in the 90s of the out-of-africa vs regional evolutionary theories. However. maybe the excessive pushback on the younger dryans impact therory is just part of the general pushback against pre-clovis sites. There has been at least 30 years of denial about pre-clovis sites in the Americas, where only relatively recently the mainstream has grudgingly admitted that it might indicate earlier human habitation of the Americas. Yes, my arguments are kind of a mixed bag here.
@@tacitus7797 to be honest, the pre-clovis sites in the eastern us might be the result of the cataclysm causing a massive erosional unconformity in the geology, occasionally putting clovis points on top of older soil which gives the illusion they are older than what they really were.
Liked and subscribed. Excellent discussion. Interesting the effects this event had on the earth and human civilization. More so what would be the consequences should this happen again? Excellent video.
Help! I keep reading that agriculture was introduced by people who migrated into new lands bringing their technology with them (what happened to the people they replaced?). Alternatively I read that there was a gradual change of food source practices which eventually became agriculture. This hypothesis on the YD event helps the gradual change theory. But genetic studies also seem to show otherwise. Which version do you two feel is more likely?
At the moment there is only correlation, not causation. It is like asking, what caused the megadrought that ended the Assyrian Empire? If there was an actual megadrought.
I can add another few points into the mix. If we look at lacustrine and some terrestrial records from Chukotka in northeastern Russia and also parts of the Brooks range, we see also very limited evidence of a Younger Dryas Event at all. See Vyse et al. 2020. Also significant pollen work by Anderson and Lohzkin.
Eastern canada, Greenland and the great lakes have always looked like an impact site when you factor in ice and geology. The asteroid impact mission showing how common it is for those bodies to be loosely connected collections of smaller objects also means you can't assume single impact sites for every impact. Thats now statistically impossible.
Hi Guys, are you aware of the amazing series of RUclips videos by Dr Martin Sweatman surveying and criticising the ENTIRE YDIH scientific literature up to about three years ago? Here is the link to the playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLftb0lOpSe9PvJhFKSueZV9Wrz4g1qRkr In this series Dr Sweatman is sharply critical of the scientific methodologies employed by the YDIH critics. I don't have the detailed scientific and statistical training required to assess what he says in detail but it seemed rather compelling to me. No coverage of the topic is complete without a look at this material, imho!
I'm wondering what levels of mass potentially could hit the earth when passing through a large comet's tail? (I'm sniffing a Hollywood disaster movie here - nothing to shoot down).
Why does it always have to be one thing? I think it was likely a lot of things, possibly triggered by debris from space, but then a chain of devastating events. It’s never one thing.
Correct. The numerous previous, similar climate excursions probably had different causal sequences. The YD might have been "scheduled" for sometime a thousand years later, but happened early because the comet strike triggered some causative event. It will be a long time before we have any certainty about what actually happened, and we may never know. But anyway we do know there was a European eruption sometime before it, and there was a comet strike right at its onset that initiated the extinction of 30+ North American megafaunal genera (which the previous cold spells failed to cause), and incidentally also incinerated Abu Hureyra. The last result was useful because the associated cultural artifacts prompted careful collection of evidence decades before the event was known, that still exists and could be checked.
I always wondered how the Willamette Meteor survived as it did and where it was found? Ice could have both softened the landing and transported it during a flood and deposited in Willamette, Oregon.
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@@Eyes_Open yes, the comet impact put untold amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere which subsequently rained down into the atlantic and shut down the haline conveyor and cooled the northern hemisphere while heating the southern.
i started with the amazing randall carlson podcasts and delved further and see the weight of the evidence surely means catastrophic geocosmic impact with comet fragments. and a side issue, i see a graph of ice ages shows we may be tipping towards another. that's why i personally put the danger of warming climate down the list of earthly and human perils.
Exactly how confused am I? What I read and saw on TV was that the Younger Dryas was caused by an enormous amount of comet debris which rapidly melted the glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. When ice was locked up in glaciers, ocean levels were much lower and many large cities were on those ancient coastlines. A sudden global ice melt might have flooded cities around the world, resulting in stories of a "global" flood (found in cultures around the world) when it was just a sudden rise in sea levels. A LOT of exciting archeological work is now centered off the current ocean coasts and they are finding cities out there. If this was something which happened more than once, it would explain why the underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey was built...going beneath the surface to escape catastrophic debris falling from the sky. This (and the research cited) says the comet debris started the Ice Age. I want to stay with science but everything we know about ancient civilizations is being overturned by recent discoveries of cities (Göbekli Tepe for example) which existed long before they were previously assumed.
Pole shift, CME and comets may all be part of the same phenomena . Maybe the magnetosphere does not just weaken during pole shift, perhaps for a moment, it actually attracts comets and meteors while also being hit with plasma waves from sun. We will soon find out. Suspicious Observer is on RUclips, if you don't already know, highly recommend.
The shocked quartz in MD is from the Chesapeake Bay formation from 31 million years ago. Not the younger dryas impact. Out in Southern west virginia, I've got evidence of the the younger dryas impact on the side of a mountain at about 2800 ft above sea level facing north west.
I'm more curious what ended the Younger Dryas, that broke the ice age pattern that had been sustained tens of thousands of years previous. That sudden dip for a thousand years was an almost regular event and not a one off but the END of it. . .well, that is very different. What ended the ice age? That is a lot of heat to explain.
Hi guys! I'm an author on this paper!
Andrew Moore was approached by the CRG because Abu Hureyra was known to span the YD boundary. When analysis revealed impact proxies, Moore revisited prior interpretations of the site such as a burn layer he previously thought was odd but attributed to cooking fires.
There are 5 papers on Abu Hureyra. Bunch et al. 2012, Moore et al. 2020 and Moore et al. 2023a, 2023b, 2023c.
There are more than 120 papers supporting the YDIH and about 70 criticising it. All can be read on the comprehensive YDIH bibliography on Cosmic Tusk.
the lack of shocked quartz has been the main whipping stick of the old guard. so imo, this is probably a seminal paper to acceptance of YDIH. congratulations!
I would like to see a comprehensive answer to the comprehensive refutation paper.
@Eyes_Open I wrote a 50,000 word thesis that serves as a rebuttal, though without addressing it head on for the most part. You can read it on Graham Hancocks website. Tere is also a comprehensive rebuttal directly addressing their paper line by line currently in press in a peer reviewed journal, of which I am also a coauthor.
Earth Science Reviews, where the 'comprehensive rebuttal' is published, refused to give us more than 5000 words to respond to their 96000 word ad hominem
@littlefish9305 When history looks back on this affair it will be considered a seminal paper, but because the shock evidence we see at the YDB is essentially a new form, we still have an uphill battle for widespread acceptance.
Congrats on 80k, gents. In my opinion, you should have at least 2 million subscribers
This is where I come to when I want to listen to two intelligent, funny people talking and discussing interesting topics.
Half the time I've no idea what you're talking about, the other half I'm so fascinated by you two talking, that I can't listen. 😅
I'm always pleased though when I get a notification. And I know that any comment helps the channel grow.
I'm sorry I have nothing more intelligent to contribute to the discussion though.
There is not one unintelligent viewpoint when talking about the universe.
Plus, I don't get the hype of trying to understand it all. Knowledge is not a thing that keeps me up at night 😂
@@deathbydeviceable Exactly!
Brazilian geologist here.
Love your channel guys!
Always so good to see your posts come up.
As a retired geologist, I have worked in impact structures and re-stratigraphic sediments with mineralization and have also learned the trade in the very glacial domains of Scandinavia, Greenland, and New Zealand, a hypothesis saying that globally affected geological and astronomical events is nothing new, there has been deep correlations of such events, like the Tunguska event around 1908. One of my professors in paleontology, Björn Kurtén, from Åbo, voiced ideas that interstadial changes did affect our forefathers, proven by Svante Pääbo et al. Why is this a discussion, meteorites and vulcanism has through all of the planet's history altered the life conditions. Look at the Lockne crater southeast of Östersund; there exists a fossil of an octopus getting a part of the meteorite in its head. Also, during the Ice Age, Sahara was a flourishing Eden, now dried out. What happened to those animals and humanoids. Something happened in Syria during the same period, younger Dryas, forcing a new way of life. A correlation between the dry out of the Saharas and changes in the levant might been ONE of the causes, astroblemes another. I people fights about such, then we are in a bad way. Nils-Axel Mörners Gothenburg theory about the earth magnetics might be a clue, though he was wrong at times and right in others.
There was an impact in western egypt recently before king tuts time. They were farming impact melted glass to use for jewlry..
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"Was a Nuclear Holocaust" it created the trinitite glass, the glass is found in a area of 6k sq miles, a f4000degree asteroid can't foot it with a
Million Degree Nuke .
so fgullible can't you think for yourself Dude
@@christianbuczko1481 30 million years might be recent in geologic time, but it's not recent compared to Tutankhamun.
@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer who said 30mil years?? I was referring to an event which left dessert glass on the surface of the dessert, which means its very recent, as in less than 12,000 years old, possibly from the younger dryas events infact. The reason for that idea is that the dessert wasnt always a dessert, 12,000 years ago it was green, meaning there would be evidence of carbon, and the fact the glass is found on the surface, not from deep down also suggests its relatively recent.
@@christianbuczko1481 The impact that created the glass that you are talking about has been dated to ~30 million years ago.
Prof Vance Haynes said that the megafauna were all extinguished in less than a century.
If true, that is not predation, as some claim, that is something sudden, like an impact.
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Just needs evidence to support that claim.
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We could start with Mammoths as one of the thousands of species that went extinct.
@@dustydesert1674 When did the mammoths go extinct? In all regions at the same time? Extinctions were happening thousands of years apart for some species as per current understanding.
@@Eyes_Open that IS the evidence.
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I'm certainly not an expert but my understanding about 'shocked' quartz is that the intense pressure wave actually shocked the crystal structure of quartz to a high-pressure form; quartz occurs naturally in several crystal forms (technical names) depending on the T/P* situation of formation. Hope that makes sense.
* temperature/pressure
I've been learning a bit of geology and there are so incredibly many forms of silicate rocks... I had to check, shocked quartz is high pressure but not high temp. Discovered during atomic testing, found in impact craters but also caused by lightning strikes so you also need mineral evidence to confirm impact events.
@@luciddaze248 : agree, context is important. Polymorphs of Silica (SiO²): Silica occurs in nature as seven distinct polymorphs: quartz, cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, stishovite, lechatelerite (silica glass), and opal.
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Never trust a group who's only purpose is to prove their own hypothesis.
@@swirvinbirds1971 I.e., never trust any authors of any papers? All papers are published by people demonstrating their hypothesis. The people to distrust in this instance are Boslough, Surovell, and Holliday, who are actively destroying their hard-earned reputations. Surovell is still a Clovis-firster. Boslough has become obsessed and does no real work anymore. The real mystery is why. Can it all be Hancock Derangement Syndrome?
@@sciptick no, groups specifically formed to prove their own hypothesis.
Why do you think that? What stake do they have to lose?
Randal Carlson has some good podcast on all this too.
@@swirvinbirds1971 only because the mainstream's purpose to prevent competing hypothesis from being proven.
Ah, yes, science at work. As a PhD chemist, I’ve been involved in or spectator to a variety of controversies and the factions, papers, talks and personalities involved. I’m reminded of a Max Planck quote “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
I mean, yes and no.
Tesla didn't give credence to Einstein's work on relativity.
He didn't even believe in electromagnetic wave theory or electrons.
Curious for someone working as an electrical engineer and attempted radio maker 😂🤣
A fairly strong consensus within the community of physicists was reached on relativity in Einstein's lifetime.
Ouch, I hope you overcome your extensive academic brainwashing. Not many do.
Once again 9:37 a good discussion, punctuated by your signature sense of humor. I really enjoy this channel in the midst of the kitchen middens of some individual’s flights of fancy. The mention of Abu Hureyra really caught my attention. Years ago I took an upper division course in Soil Science which I found unexpectedly fascinating. Before we got to the nitty gritty of soil composition, we spent the exploration of several chapters on the development of agriculture. One of the sites they focused on was Abu Hureyra and it’s proximity to the species of wild grains that became domesticated, although stands of wild ancestors i.e emmer and einkorn still exist in the area. The text book was quite old even when I took the course because the village site still existed on its ancient location. I still have that book. It was well regarded at the time and quite carefully written to avoid any leaps of the imagination. And as a result of the course I think anyone doing archeological digs would benefit from even a bit of soil science.
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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, usually it's a duck!!! Why the vitriolic abhorrent opposition to what the facts are indicating, all the ducks line up in a neat little row if you just will look at the obvious evidence, then it all makes sense, Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is usually the right one, that's what we go with in science, what is most likely, and a series of air-burst impacts with a few actually making contact with the ice sheets explains so much, the heat paradox of the former ice age, the massive influx of fresh melt-water, the plummeting of global temps due to the shutting down of the "great ocean conveyor system", shocked quartz and nano-diamonds, Carolina Bays impact proxies that fan out from Saginaw Bay, the Greenland impact crater which has almost exactly 13000 years of new unfractured ice and snow above it. The black mat found at countless sites all over the world dating right to 12,800 ybp, the end of Clovis, and so many other cultures across the globe. Abrupt abandonment of site previously occupied for millennia, evidence of catastrophic floods worldwide, but especially in the American west. So many points that all line up to a massive series of impacts that likely occurred in 2 distinct periods, one around 12800 ypb and a second around 11600 ybp, but for 1200 years there may have been frequent impacts, but with the 2 meltwater pulses it may point to 2 significant impact events, the last of which was around 9600 BCE. So much evidence to dispute with no alternative explanations. It boggles the mind why someone would continue to be so adamant about disputing this "theory" I think at this point it should be accepted as actual fact and universally studied to find out the how, why, when, and wheres etc... so we can properly prepare to defend ourselves from the next one, why is this so hard for people to understand and accept???
Denial of one’s life long education starting to fracture, transitions into ideology, we can observe the evidence of this popping up all over the world…
I don't understand either. It is clearly in mythology, I don't know how everyone missed it. The Mesoamericans sacrificed humans to the Feathered Serpent, from the most recent meteor stream's radiant, so that it would not take the Sun away, again, for long periods of time, Impact Winters. The incredulousness is so persuasive that I have had to research Psychology to understand denial. I am just about convinced it is a genetic memory of the traumas. We know the story : The Shinning Hero fighting the Dragon to save the Maiden. It is in Little Red Riding hood also, as the Woodsman cuts out of the Wolf, the grandma, mom, and the kid, symbolizing the Ages of Man, or The Suns of America.
They still have hard time admitting they were wrong about cities and people in the Amazon. Impact modeling with multiple meteors made the most sense to me.
Well said, @bvalt1 👍🏽
I postulate that there is an agenda, perhaps unrecognized, that wishes to believe that man is in charge and has full control. Extraterrestrial events, for the most part, are out of our control.
Congrats Guys! It’s tough to make people care about this, and you fellas do it!
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I got my wife a micro-diamond for Christmas, and there's been a sudden, massive cooling period in my home. Younger Dry-House?
I will continue to keep an open mind since I have no expertise in this field. I will wait for experts to go over this paper and hash it out. I love this about science.
I actually hate this about science. because many times someone gets the correct answer the first time, but (especially now in modern academia as most "scientists" are just beauracrats masquerading as scientists... and have no interest in truth seeking. instead they are much more consumed with reputation, career, and money) some butt-hurt "scientist" goes about not disproving the first paper, but merely casting doubt upon it by claiming "method inconsistenty" or some other bs. never actually showing why their paper is wrong, but merely throwing enough shade to cause an inkling of doubt because their methodology wasn't 100% all encompassing, or that another way to check something may exist. the entire point is to just keep someone else from getting recognition
Check out Antonio Zamora's youtube videos on this. According to his work, more than one comet fragment hit the Laurentide icesheet around the Great Lakes in the USA. This impact led to the formation of the Carolina Bays and Nebraska Rainwater Basins (secondary ice bolder impacts) in the USA and wiped out the North American mega fauna.
Sorry, the bays are way too old to be connected to the end-Pleistocene comet strike.
@@sciptick Incorrect. Check out his videos. It gets into age dating as well and the incorrect procedures that have been used in dating. A lot has to do with the overturn of the crater lip and where samples have been obtained.
@@justmenotyou3151 thank you. people don't realize that you cannot date ice boulder impacts by soil date testing alone! Zamora is correct and the YDIH group cannot handle admitting they got it WRONG.
@@sciptick I am sorry, but the disappearance of all megafauna in North America and the evidence of tens of thousands of craters radiating outward from a relatively common source is FAR too coincidental to be discounted.
@@justmenotyou3151Zamora has nothing that dates their formation to 12,900 years ago. Nothing.
Basic science fan/average Joe.
Maybe due to the fact of watching The Why Files or reading other publications, I find myself to be a fan of the YDIH.
To me, it just makes sense.
My own take on the Younger Dryas climate change is a Comet (or loosely held assemblage of debris) was pulled apart in the earth’s gravity field with many pieces raining down across a global swath. The resulting platinum, iridium, micro spheres, micro diamond, deposits combined with global fire storms in the same strata marks the impact event that triggered the collapse of the AMOC water current that keeps Northern Europe warm and thereby greatly reduces ice that reflects solar radiation (a self perpetuating cold that continued until the AMOC was restored 1000 years later.
You guys seem to be having too much fun doing these show. Thanks. Keep going.
Fascinating! Thanks for de-boggling such a mind-boggling load of facts for us in such an entertaining way!
Since you mentioned Earth moving through the comet's tail, would we be able to cross-check the Moon's craters to find a match of that time?
There's a formula to give an age range to moon craters based on how many smaller craters have formed within them, it's very low resolution compared to our modeling of Earth's history. Maybe rovers could attempt to "match" craters with mineral analysis in the future though, which could in turn make the crater dating formula more accurate... very cool to think about
Yet another reason for a permanent moon base
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It's an island of civility humour and it's really interesting
Thank you
Thank you guys for discussing this hypothesis, this one could be coming home, please look at the black Matt layer, it could be very significant, fringe/ citizen science can on occasion have relevance subject to scientific peer review naturally.
richard firestone's book is a must for this topic.
Always love your show, but younger dryas is a particular favourite subject, so fascinating, as it changed everything! Great info. Fab 👍😊
I grew up in South Carolina USA, and your discussion just reminded me of the thousands of half-mile or mile-wide shallow craters of the costal low-lands there, called "Carolina Bays". From the ground, you just think they are swamps and earth berms; but from an airplane survey, like in the 1930s first aerial pictures, they quickly stand out as shallow impact craters, with debris in them dated at 12,500 years old (when rocks or ice boulders the size of big buildings fell from the sky).
the Carolina Bays are much much older than the Younger Dryas.
@@NathanaelFosaaen you can't date those impacts by testing the soil.
RUclips>Antonio Zamora > Carolina Bays>LIDAR
Lol, there naturally formed (water) , and being formed in multiple places around the world today , I own property within 2 miles from them in NC
@@andrewbowlgarte4738 prove they're naturally formed.
In North America, 12,900 years ago also marks a time of human cultural change-from very large Clovis blade technology to Folsom tools. The changeover is associated with a change in the size of hunted mammalian prey & final disappearance of megafauna other than bison. The much disdained Solutrean hypothesis, though, proposed very similar events as the recent claims you discuss about the YDIH-widespread forest fires and disappearance of the proposed Solutreans who are proposed to have reached North America across the ice-congested North Atlantic from the extended coastline of Pleistocene France/Spain after around 19,000 ya. As long as we keep talking about the possibilities, we’ll keep extending the research to find out more about the wonders of the human race.
Yes, too many Flint hand tools, found from 12,000 years ago to 33,000, & then a SEVER GAP OF 100,000'S of years we find a unknappable assortment of Quarzatite; (Chalcedony) ones?
There is no direct connection between Solutreans and the North American Clovis industry. However, the 5000 years between their invention in Europe and Clovis points turning up in North America is plenty of time for people carrying the invention to migrate incrementally all the way across Asia and then into North America, bringing their tool industry with them. If true, it will take a century of archaeology to prove it.
@caroletomlinson5480 = _"...the proposed Solutreans who are proposed to have reached North America across the ice-congested North Atlantic from the extended coastline of Pleistocene France/Spain after around 19,000 ya. "_ - - - - - I understand what you are saying, all except for the fact that there is no evidence to support your claim, not even DNA.
@@sciptick that’s laughable.
@@caroletomlinson5480 Laughable? Less likely than independent invention, but still possible. What is laughable is people in North America sitting on Solutrean industry for 5000 years and then beginning to use it after it has disappeared from Europe.
Antonio Zamora is comprehensive concerning the totally distinct geometry of the Carolina Bays, and, more.
No he does not. He ignores dating work, has an ejecta curtain that dwarfs even the Chicxulub crater, has never even shown an impactor can create a perfect mathematical ellipse, yet alone the bays themselves show everything from wind migration (GPR imaging of Herdron Bay) to undisturbed sediments under the bays showing no impact formation.
The Geomodels has some really good videos on the Carolina Bays. Curious Being, although I disagree with her Ancient lost civilization stuff, also has a good video about the Carolina Bays.
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I think the minimal work performed on the raised rims is consistent with his dating modeling. The ice is a different beast from the rocks outskirting Chixulib, thus, the wider curtain cannot be discounted for this reason, its cannonball trajectories. Zamora does some field work on the wind erosion proposed by Prince in river beds that lends to his consistency as well, but, the issue is dynamic, despite this aspect of statics where the center of the target is dismissed.
Is thatore willy nilly than true recorded history of the outlying areas? There is an enormous amount of shared consistency in the alignments in the central regions, so, why they are called Carolina Bays and not Georgia Bays? Pointing to an energy equation that seems to be a singular blast rather than spread out has the center of the target in its sights, I think. Accounting is not all discounnting.
@@RobertMStahl His dating modeling? He is a computer science guy with no expertise in the field and in no way a Geologist. Minimal work? Lots of dating work has been done. What's minimal is dating work that would agree with Zamora of which there is none.
We have impact ejecta curtains on the Mars ice cap and they are nowhere near the size of this proposed ejecta curtain in relation to the crater and Mars has a much thinner atmosphere.
Btw they are called different things in different areas and their morphology changes as well. In Maryland, they are called Maryland basins. Within the Delmarva Peninsula, they and other coastal ponds are also called Delmarva bays. The word Carolina Bays evolved in papers studying the Bays in Carolina.
@@swirvinbirds1971 there was a study done on the raised rims Zamora cites
@@RobertMStahl lots of work have been done on the sand rims and the fact that they migrate. Dating work on the sand rims show bay migration. You can find these same raised sand rims on Thermokarst Lakes as well.
Hi guys, great talk. I have a background in historic geology, though being more of a generalist then a specialist. I've always favored the impact hypothesis, based on the evidence presented. To me, another aspect is the number of extraterrestrial impacts Earth has experienced. It's more then just a few. In a way it's like extinction events. Most know of the "Big 5" extinction events, which leaves out the largest of all, the Great Oxygenation Catastrophe that occurred around 2.5 billion years ago. Plus there are other events, like the Chesapeake Bay Bolide, which likely contributed to the Eocene-Oligocene Extinction about 33 million years ago, and gave the U.S. it's largest impact crater. Many are unaware of that impact, the immense crater it formed, and the related extinction.
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One of the best recent indie prehistory news pods out there if not, the best. And all thanks to a couple of bumbling old tech fogeys! Who wouldve thought
Just discovered this channel. Looking forward to watching more of your content.
One of your best, guys. Just subscribed. Being Scots, I thought that the Younger Dryas was named (at least in part) after a member of the Younger family, famous brewers of fine ales, and creators of the Younger Botanic Gardens at Benmore. Hmmm, maybe I now need to start hunting for the Older Botanic Gardens....
For me there are lessons here. It’s amazing that the evidence for something that must of been so unimaginably violent has been so easy to miss and is still controversial.
One lesson is that the clues may be difficult to establish. The other lesson is that once you start stepping on toes, even professionals can act in ways that are inexcusable.
OH, some people's 'professionalism' is truly skin deep!
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There is a crater in Greenland, but it's dated to 50 odd mya. What impact mechanism would cause a cooling for so long and just as quick warming at the end?
Dating on Hiawatha is far from secure. It amounts to wishful thinking by a some who wish the YD-coincident impact were not proven, and wish that proof depended on a connection to Hiawatha.
I have to say that as an archaeologist, I have always preferred "all of the above." All of the various "explanations" have some sound reasons for thinking they may hold some support. Also, there is the recent impactite discovery in Chile that is about the right age.
Dryas is named for a tiny arctic flower, Dryas octopetala. As was just mentioned by our host. I had looked it up!
And as to memories…you both have a lot of info in your heads, not surprising you’d forget Dryas octopetala. 😝
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You are very kind - thank you! That's much appreciated. 😊
Great video. Thanks for explaining the name, Younger Dryas, too. Curious, then, why the flower was named that, I ran into a bunch of Greek mythology with several characters cited but most depicting him as a spectacular warrior. Which makes sense if you're a tough little flower growing on glaciated terrain.
Thanks for bringing both sides of the discussion. Wish you'd said more about the nay's.
I like pre-history. Once you have studied most of what there is to know about written histories from the Persian Empire to the British Empire there is nothing new left to learn except pre-history.
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Gothenburg Magnetic Excursion happened in the same period, with magnetic field strength plummeting. It was all in all a shit time to be alive.
A bit like today then….. magnetic field wise as well as other wise
Perhaps it was a solar event rather than an impact if we were less protected
@@qui-gonjay2944that wouldn’t explain Shocked Quartz,or Carolina/Nebraska bays, or many other things
Are you familiar with Antonio Zamora research?
@@qui-gonjay2944 - Solar events are brief, like the last one that only effected the atmosphere for a few days. Full solar cycles last from 9-14 years; solar maximum lasts about 2-ish years. The Younger Dryas period lasted from about 200-400 years.
thank you. If the scientists, who studied those things thoroughly have such different opinions on 'what really happened' (they even fight eachother!), I don't feel bad about having my own opinions 😊
If a comet impacted the Laurentide ice sheet, it wouldn't leave a crater since the ice was what, two miles thick?
THIS. Or maybe it was a Tunguska type of *Explosive Airburst* of a much larger comet?
Possible craters have been found in several places in Canada. They appear shallow as you would expect in these circumstances. I read the papers that mentioned this years ago but I think it was Firestone and West et al.
@@donhillsmanii5906 everyone please look up Antonio Zamora's channel and watch his content, he explains all of this perfectly with his glacier ice impact hypothesis.
Comets are mostly ice, this would have been more meteor shower. Like other person mentioned tunguski
@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural this was what i was reading as well. Large impact area small craters most likely meteor shower
Meteor or not, the YD was definitely a global catastrophe that had people everywhere transitioning from good food (big game essentially) to much lower quality food: mollusks in Europe, acorns in North Africa (causing a horrible epidemic of cavities) and grass, almost literally "grass" (that's what cereals are), in the Fertile Crescent from Sudan to the Zagros. Places like Ireland saw their climate radically change from modern temperatures to Greenland-like ones in a matter of months. Some sort of catastrophe it was definitely.
If it was indeed caused by a meteorite or comet impact, for which there is at least some serious evidence, I lean towards but unsure.
Read The Comet Research Group Publications, it is assuredly space fall proxies covering 1/3 of the globe. There were hippo's in the Saudi Arabian Peninsula just prior.
Yes evidence of the destruction of Megolithic Structures Worldwide, is obvious, yet all indications that they were 460,000, & 720,000 years ago.
How do you explain the warming of the Southern Hemisphere while the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere dropped? A change in the "Atlantic meridional overturning circulation" can easily explain both conditions and is something that we may be facing again in the not too distant future. With the disruption of the circulation, the Gulf Stream will cease bringing warm water north nd cause significant cooling.
@@MossyMozart - Not sure, it's something I was unaware of before you asked. But after a cursory search I found that a 2021 paper on moa paleo-ecology in NZ (Richard N Holdaway, "Palaeobiological evidence for Southern Hemisphere Younger Dryas and volcanogenic cold periods") seems to contradict the previous papers (Kaplan 2010 and Carlson 2013) that claimed that there was a warming instead (based on glacial retreat in a key paleoclimate research site also in NZ). Per the moa ecology paper, NZ experienced cooling for all the YD period, just as Europe.
Anyway, the meteor and the oceanic stream system shift are not in contradiction: a meteor could hardly cause a thousand-years-long climate shift like that... but it could devastate some glaciers pouring massive amounts of cold freshwater into the North Atlantic and radically disrupting the AMOC (Gulf Stream system). The persistance of this short ice age clearly indicates that it was not just the meteor and maybe it would have happened anyhow without it, that the North American ice shelf suddenly pouring into the North Atlantic was the real cause of the YD. However this pouring may have been triggered by a meteor anyhow.
@@MossyMozart "How do you explain"... Maybe the global climate is a _complicated subject,_ often involving counterintuitive effects? Big events often produce big changes that cause further big changes, some of which might be in ocean circulation. Anybody pretending to know all about how climate works is visibly pretending, and maybe wishing. Wishing is incompatible with science. Stop wishing.
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I would welcome a session about Tim Rowe's securely-dated 37kyo Hartley mammoth site. Everybody seems just as afraid to mention it as they are the comet strike.
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I thought the Younger Dryas impact was postulated to be on or over the Laurentian Ice Sheet near Lake Michigan.. There are debris impacts in Kansas and the Carolina Banks.
Sorry, no there are not. The Carolina bays and Nebraska ponds are way too old to be connected. And the notion of ice chunks being hurled intact, not shattering to powder, is just silly.
@@sciptick you didn't cite anything to back up your claims.
I think there is a documentary on Discovery Channel done on this matter that is over a decade old.
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I imagine it’s passing through a comet tail. In Earth high altitude, like the plasma burn in a pulverised coal blasted furnace. That is in constant intense glow. Being in Power station experience . The evidence logically backs this even stronger hypothesis.
Fascinating! Thanks for this interesting report.
A comet's tail is not going to cause any damage to Earth. It's just widely dispersed dust. Neither would it produce some of the items you were talking about like shocked quartz and microspherules. Those would be the result of an actual collision.
That thought did occur to me.
the remnants of comet encke have laid down debris and dust in an earth crossing orbit which the earth still encounters today. some of that "dust" is substantial and threatening to life on earth. bolide airbusts produce extreme pressure and temperatures many times hotter than the sun.
@@littlefish9305 I consider a comet's orbiting "remnants" and a comet's dust tail to be different things.
I may be behind a bit, but they do not seem to consider the possible impact site on the N end of Greenland, still covered in ice now, but drains out impact-related material. Can't recall the paper now, but these guys don't seem to have seen that?
@@antimatter4444 Yes. I think you're talking about the Hiawatha Crater in Greenland.
One of the lead scientists on the CRG is Firestone - very appropriate.
Victor Clube and Bill Napier and their book Cosmic Serpent opened many eyes to the possibility of impact events affecting myths and history.
Melting huge volumes of ice at zero degrees centigrade to water at zero degrees centigrade takes a lot of energy and explaining the heat input for the melt water pulse at that time is difficult to explain but impacts are a potential way to achieve that result.
If rye was a viable crop during the YD , just imagine those poor people having to drink Canadian whiskey for a thousand years. The suffering! And I'm Canadian by the way. Love your channel and her's a single malt to 100,000.
Right on topic with the news. Many thanks.
If you look at past recent Holocene periods they never last longer than 11k years, SO WE ARE OVERDUE 😢!
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Randall Carlson is not attached to Hancock, as some might imply. They intersect in theories, but differ in others. The Comet Research group is not attached to Carlson. Intersection does not imply cloning or mirroring as bedfellows. I don't agree with everything anyone theorizes as a whole, even when the bits and bobs have evidence. Lumping the outliers into a category to chastise, only shows your personal limitations to learn new things. Science eventually chastises the chastisers. Thanks for bring up some new information to some, and extant information to myself. Well lit.
"Randall Carlson"
@@TheDanEdwards but, a broken clock is right twice a day. He may have some wild theories, but he also has a lot of knowledge.
@@TheDanEdwards, what makes you say such nonsense?
@@TheDanEdwards Carlson is a scientist who is not 100% correct. Hancock is a true believer. They are not conmen like unchartedX.
@@TGBurgerGamingCarlson IS NOT A SCIENTIST. He is an ARCHITECT.
Turn off Randall Carlson and turn on Nick Zentner to learn how Randall is a fool or simply a con man.
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Comet tails are not very dense. We pass through two per year. They produce meteor showers. No big whoop.
read astronomer victor clube, whilst most debris are insignificant, there are many dangerous pieces in comet tails.
Napier and clube, their books can be hard to find and very expensive.
I wish they'd reprint their work, might look for scientific papers.
Meteor and comets are two different objects. 1st being mostly rock, 2nd mostly ice.
Could one find evidence of the Y-D anywhere? South central Pennsylvania?
I've read two books about the Carolina Bays, elliptical depressions who's long axes intersect in the Ice sheets of northern North America and Greenland. I've also seen mentions of a possible crater detected under Greenland's ice sheet. The depressions most common in the Carolina area also extend as far west as Nebraska(?); are these all connected?
No.
@@MossyMozart why?
@@littlefish9305 - The eastern coastal plain depressions range from New York to Florida. They are circular to elliptical in shape. (If made by large incoming debris from somewhere up north, wouldn't they be oval instead?) Bays were dated in the Carolinas and Georgia, as can be found in a certain online encyclopedia:
_"The dating of the sand rims of a number of Carolina bays by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques has yielded ages ranging from ~109,000 to ~2,000 years ago, but most ages from the sand rims range from ~40,000 to ~11,000 years ago._"
Nebraska's Rainwater Basins range in shape from irregular, circular, semi-elliptical, elliptical, to lunette ridges. Their age ranges from 28,000 to 50,000 years BP.
You have as yet to hear about the Pyramid Cosmic Bomb Shelter Hypothesis.
You heard it here first.
Antonio Zamora provides an interesting take on a Laurentide, Michigan impact
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LOL ... the pushback about Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis seems to be due to an offshoot hypothesis that Cromagnon emigrated from Europe to the Americas along the ice margains and were later wiped out by the impact. As I understand it - some have looked at the Clovis points and said those look like an improved version of the spear points found in Europe and it spread around. On the Younger Dryas Impact - I have heard arguments on both sides and I am confused.
can you expand a little more on this? i didn't realize the solutrean hypothesis was involved in the bias against the YDIH.
@@AustinKoleCarlisle To be honest it might not -be - and I am an outsider looking in so I have no specific knowledge other than videos reguritating others writings. The very first time I heard about either they were connected - where the North American Solutreans were wiped out by the Younger Dryas impact. The arguments against impact theory are so vehement; it reminds me of the arguments in the 90s of the out-of-africa vs regional evolutionary theories. However. maybe the excessive pushback on the younger dryans impact therory is just part of the general pushback against pre-clovis sites. There has been at least 30 years of denial about pre-clovis sites in the Americas, where only relatively recently the mainstream has grudgingly admitted that it might indicate earlier human habitation of the Americas. Yes, my arguments are kind of a mixed bag here.
@@tacitus7797 to be honest, the pre-clovis sites in the eastern us might be the result of the cataclysm causing a massive erosional unconformity in the geology, occasionally putting clovis points on top of older soil which gives the illusion they are older than what they really were.
Liked and subscribed. Excellent discussion. Interesting the effects this event had on the earth and human civilization. More so what would be the consequences should this happen again? Excellent video.
Help! I keep reading that agriculture was introduced by people who migrated into new lands bringing their technology with them (what happened to the people they replaced?). Alternatively I read that there was a gradual change of food source practices which eventually became agriculture. This hypothesis on the YD event helps the gradual change theory. But genetic studies also seem to show otherwise. Which version do you two feel is more likely?
At the moment there is only correlation, not causation. It is like asking, what caused the megadrought that ended the Assyrian Empire? If there was an actual megadrought.
I can add another few points into the mix. If we look at lacustrine and some terrestrial records from Chukotka in northeastern Russia and also parts of the Brooks range, we see also very limited evidence of a Younger Dryas Event at all. See Vyse et al. 2020. Also significant pollen work by Anderson and Lohzkin.
Eastern canada, Greenland and the great lakes have always looked like an impact site when you factor in ice and geology. The asteroid impact mission showing how common it is for those bodies to be loosely connected collections of smaller objects also means you can't assume single impact sites for every impact. Thats now statistically impossible.
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A massive amount of airbursts would certainly cause damage worldwide.
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Hi Guys, are you aware of the amazing series of RUclips videos by Dr Martin Sweatman surveying and criticising the ENTIRE YDIH scientific literature up to about three years ago? Here is the link to the playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLftb0lOpSe9PvJhFKSueZV9Wrz4g1qRkr
In this series Dr Sweatman is sharply critical of the scientific methodologies employed by the YDIH critics. I don't have the detailed scientific and statistical training required to assess what he says in detail but it seemed rather compelling to me. No coverage of the topic is complete without a look at this material, imho!
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I'm wondering what levels of mass potentially could hit the earth when passing through a large comet's tail?
(I'm sniffing a Hollywood disaster movie here - nothing to shoot down).
Why does it always have to be one thing? I think it was likely a lot of things, possibly triggered by debris from space, but then a chain of devastating events. It’s never one thing.
Correct. The numerous previous, similar climate excursions probably had different causal sequences. The YD might have been "scheduled" for sometime a thousand years later, but happened early because the comet strike triggered some causative event. It will be a long time before we have any certainty about what actually happened, and we may never know.
But anyway we do know there was a European eruption sometime before it, and there was a comet strike right at its onset that initiated the extinction of 30+ North American megafaunal genera (which the previous cold spells failed to cause), and incidentally also incinerated Abu Hureyra. The last result was useful because the associated cultural artifacts prompted careful collection of evidence decades before the event was known, that still exists and could be checked.
Good lord realy.
anyone looking in Gobekli Tepe for younger dryas evidence?
I always wondered how the Willamette Meteor survived as it did and where it was found? Ice could have both softened the landing and transported it during a flood and deposited in Willamette, Oregon.
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What happened in the Southeen Hemisphere during the Younger Dryas please ?
Good question.
I believe that the climate in South America, in general, became warmer and wetter as opposed to colder and drier in North America.
@@badomajiThere is a paper claiming evidence of an impact in the Andes. Plus, there is a image in Google Earth that matches.
@@Eyes_Open Evidence is very mixed.
@@Eyes_Open yes, the comet impact put untold amounts of water vapor into the atmosphere which subsequently rained down into the atlantic and shut down the haline conveyor and cooled the northern hemisphere while heating the southern.
i started with the amazing randall carlson podcasts and delved further and see the weight of the evidence surely means catastrophic geocosmic impact with comet fragments. and a side issue, i see a graph of ice ages shows we may be tipping towards another. that's why i personally put the danger of warming climate down the list of earthly and human perils.
Exactly how confused am I? What I read and saw on TV was that the Younger Dryas was caused by an enormous amount of comet debris which rapidly melted the glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. When ice was locked up in glaciers, ocean levels were much lower and many large cities were on those ancient coastlines. A sudden global ice melt might have flooded cities around the world, resulting in stories of a "global" flood (found in cultures around the world) when it was just a sudden rise in sea levels. A LOT of exciting archeological work is now centered off the current ocean coasts and they are finding cities out there. If this was something which happened more than once, it would explain why the underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey was built...going beneath the surface to escape catastrophic debris falling from the sky. This (and the research cited) says the comet debris started the Ice Age. I want to stay with science but everything we know about ancient civilizations is being overturned by recent discoveries of cities (Göbekli Tepe for example) which existed long before they were previously assumed.
Pole shift, CME and comets may all be part of the same phenomena . Maybe the magnetosphere does not just weaken during pole shift, perhaps for a moment, it actually attracts comets and meteors while also being hit with plasma waves from sun. We will soon find out. Suspicious Observer is on RUclips, if you don't already know, highly recommend.
Yes, Pole Shifting is a non-understood fact, that alludes us even today as to how or why. I wonder if they coincide with Global Earth Freezing?
The shocked quartz in MD is from the Chesapeake Bay formation from 31 million years ago. Not the younger dryas impact. Out in Southern west virginia, I've got evidence of the the younger dryas impact on the side of a mountain at about 2800 ft above sea level facing north west.
I'm more curious what ended the Younger Dryas, that broke the ice age pattern that had been sustained tens of thousands of years previous. That sudden dip for a thousand years was an almost regular event and not a one off but the END of it. . .well, that is very different. What ended the ice age? That is a lot of heat to explain.