Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite 28DEC2019

 Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite

Scientists Have Officially Found a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature

Peter Dockrill, Science Alerts, December 25, 2019

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-mineral-never-before-seen-in-nature

the paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new

iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn

IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article-abstract/104/9/1351/573345

Yours,

Paul H.

Metallosphaera sedula eats meteorites (open access paper) 28DEC2019

 Metallosphaera sedula eats meteorites (open access paper) 

Scientists Just Identified an Organism That Thrives on Eating Meteorites Mike Mcrae,
Science Alert, December 5, 2019

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-a-microbe-that-not-only-eats-meteorites-it-can-t-get-enough-of-them

The paper is:

Milojevic, T., Kölbl, D., Ferrière, L., Albu, M., Kish,

A., Flemming, R.L., Koeberl, C., Blazevic, A., Zebec,

Z., Simon, K.M.R. and Schleper, C., 2019. Exploring

the microbial biotransformation of extraterrestrial

material on nanometer scale. Scientific Reports, 9(1), pp.1-11.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54482-7

https://search.proquest.com/openview/cd1cea9c8a5d045e998b5746b2efed70/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2041939

Yours,

Paul H.

Scanned and Searchable Historic Texas Newspapers Now Online 24DEC2019

 Scanned and Searchable Historic Texas Newspapers Now Online

Hi,

For people, interested in searching for reports of

aerolites, meteorites, and so forth in Texas, a

considerable collection of historic local and regional

newspapers is online as scanned and searchable

digital files in "The Portal to Texas History" at

https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?explore=true&fq=dc_type:text_newspaper

For example, there are 595 hits for "aerolite" and

1,760 hits for "meteorite."

Yours,

Paul H.

Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian extinction 19DEC2019

 Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian extinction

Svensen, H., Planke, S., Polozov, A.G., Schmidbauer, N.,

Corfu, F., Podladchikov, Y.Y. and Jamtveit, B., 2009.

Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian

environmental crisis. Earth and Planetary Science

Letters, 277(3-4), pp.490-500.

http://folk.uio.no/hensven/Svensen_EPSL_2009.pdf

https://henriksvensen.wordpress.com/publicationspapers/

https://henriksvensen.wordpress.com/page/2/

Some related papers are:

Burgess, S.D., Muirhead, J.D. and Bowring, S.A., 2017.

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of

the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature

Communications, 8(1), p.164.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318793382_Initial_pulse_of_Siberian_Traps_sills_as_the_trigger_of_the_end-Permian_mass_extinction

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muirhead_D

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/113600/s41467-017-00083-9.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Polozov, A.G., Svensen, H.H., Planke, S., Grishina,

S.N., Fristad, K.E. and Jerram, D.A., 2016. The basalt

 pipes of the Tunguska Basin (Siberia, Russia):

High temperature processes and volatile

degassing into the end-Permian atmosphere.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,

Palaeoecology, 441, pp.51-64.

Svensen, H.H., Frolov, S., Akhmanov, G.G., Polozov,

A.G., Jerram, D.A., Shiganova, O.V., Melnikov, N.V.,

Iyer, K. and Planke, S., 2018. Sills and gas generation

in the Siberian Traps. Philosophical Transactions

of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and

Engineering Sciences, 376(2130), p.20170080.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327404155_Sills_and_gas_generation_in_the_Siberian_Traps

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127383/

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Sills-and-gas-generation-in-the-Siberian-Traps.-Svensen-Frolov/6d0e86fcd2beea7d96c4e15240e50650c2ac235a

Rampino, M.R., Rodriguez, S., Baransky, E. and

Cai, Y., 2017. Global nickel anomaly links

Siberian Traps eruptions and the latest Permian

mass extinction. Scientific reports, 7(1), p.12416.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622041/

http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Siberian%20trap%20eruptions.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

British scientists try to find Antarctica's "missing meteorites" 30NOV2019

 British scientists try to find Antarctica's "missing meteorites"

Antarctica: Metal meteorite quest set to get under way

By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science, November 29,  2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50549855

The Mystery of Antarctica’s Missing Meteorites

Hiding deep under the ice, iron meteorites could hold

clues to the solar system’s past., The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/hunting-for-antarcticas-lost-meteorites/583564/

An off-topic, but still interesting article is:

Scientists Recreated Volcanic Lightning by Blasting Ash Out of a Cannon

Robin George Andrews, Gizmodo, November 29,  2019

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-recreated-volcanic-lightning-by-blasting-ash-1840068684

Yours,

Paul H.

Gobekli Tepe and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Gobekli Tepe and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

There are an interesting series of blog posts about various ideas about Gobekli Tepe, its archaeology, and an alleged association with the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis on the Lateral Truth blog. They include:

Gobekli Tepe, Part 1: The Background
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, October 22, 2018.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/10/22/gobekli-tepe-pt-1-background/

Gobekli Tepe, Part 2: The Archaeology
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, November 5, 2018.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/11/05/gobekli-tepe-archaeology/

Gobekli Tepe, Part 3: The Alternative Mainstream
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, November 16, 2018.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/11/16/gobekli-tepe-part-3-alternative-mainstream/

Gobekli Tepe, Part 4: Animals and Astronomy,
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, November 18, 2018.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/11/18/gobekli-tepe-part-4-animals-astronomy/

Gobekli Tepe: Response To Martin Sweatman,
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, December 6, 2018.
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/12/06/gobekli-tepe-response-martin-sweatman/

Decoding Looney Tunes with Astronomy: What Does the Bunny Say?
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, December 7, 2018
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2018/12/07/decoding-looney-tunes-astronomy-bunny-say/

Martin Sweatman’s Decoding of Prehistory: Incoherent Catastrophe
Rebbeca Bradley, Lateral Truth, January 25, 2019
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2019/01/25/martin-sweatmans-decoding-of-prehistory-incoherent-catastrophe/

The above blogs are about:
Sweatman, M.B. and Tsikritsis, D., 2017. Decoding Göbekli Tepe with archaeoastronomy: What does the fox say?. Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry, 17(1)., 233-250.
http://omnilogi.com/ancient/deluge/Sweatman-and-Tsikritsis-gobekli-tepe-comet.pdf

In the same journal, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, another paper about a fringe version of a Younger Dryas impact senario is published. The paper is:

Jaye, M., 2019. The flooding of the Mediterranean basin at the Younger–Dryas boundary. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 19(1), 71–83.
http://maajournal.com/Issues/2019/Vol19-1/7_Jaye%2019  (1).pdf

http://www.maajournal.com/Issues2019a.php

As previously mentioned, Rebbeca Bradley also commented on Michael Jaye’s unique ideas about an Younger Dryas impact causing a truly global flood in:

Michael Jaye’s Just-So Story by Rebbeca Bradley, June 22, 2019
https://www.skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2019/06/22/michael-jayes-just-so-story/

Carl Feagans also published a post on his blog about Micheal Jaye’s paper on the Global World-wide Flood and the Younger Dryas Impact. It is:

The Pseudoarchaeology of Michael Jaye’s Worldwide Flood 

Carl Feagans , Archaeology Review, November 18, 2019
https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2019/11/the-pseudoarchaeology-of-michael-jayes-worldwide-flood/

Yours,

Paul H.

"Ice fossils" found in Acfer 094 from the Hoggar Mountains in the Algerian Sahara.

"Ice fossils" found in Acfer 094 from the Hoggar Mountains in the Algerian Sahara.

‘Ice fossils’ from the desert. Algerian meteorite offers new insights into early asteroid formation.
Cosmos, Richard A. Lovett, Novmeber 22, 2019
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/ice-fossils-from-the-desert

Fossil ice found in meteorite is the first direct evidence of ice in asteroids
By Josh Davis, The Natural History Museum, London, November 21, 2019
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/november/fossil-ice-found-in-meteorite.html

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/fossil-ice-found-in-meteor-is-the-first-direct-evidence-of-ice-i.html

The paper is:

Discovery of fossil asteroidal ice in primitive meteorite Acfer 094

By Megumi Matsumoto, Akira Tsuchiyama, Aiko Nakato, Junya Matsuno, Akira Miyake, Akimasa Kataoka, Motoo Ito, Naotaka Tomioka, Yu Kodama, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Tsukasa
Nakano, Epifanio Vaccaro, Science Advances, 20 Nov 2019 : eaax5078
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax5078

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax5078/tab-pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

Nannodiamond plant microfossils created by extraterrestrial impact (open access paper)

Nannodiamond plant microfossils created by extraterrestrial impact (open access paper)

Shumilova, T.G., Ulyashev, V.V., Kazakov, V.A., Isaenko, S.I., Svetov,S.A., Chazhengina, S.Y., Kovalchuk, N.S., Karite – diamond fossil: a new type of natural diamond,Geoscience Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2019.09.011.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987119301768

Off topic, counter septarian structure, a great pseudoartifact.

We can't figure this one out By PRK, November 19, 2016
in Fossil ID, Fossil Forum
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/70152-we-cant-figger-this-one-out-solved-counter-septarian-structures/

Counter septarian structure, Doctor Mud, Posted November 26, 2016
Page 4, Fossil Forum
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/70152-we-cant-figger-this-one-out-solved-counter-septarian-structures/&page=4&tab=comments#comment

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/70152-we-cant-figger-this-one-out-solved-counter-septarian-structures/&page=4&tab=comments#comment-737744

Seilacher, A., 2001. Concretion morphologies reflecting diagenetic and epigenetic pathways. Sedimentary Geology, 143(1-2), pp.41-57.

Yours,

Paul H.

End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding (open access paper) 25OCT2019

 End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding (open access paper)

Below is a very interesting open access paper.

Vajda, V., McLoughlin, S., Mays, C., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R.,

Tevyaw, A.,

Lehsten, V., Bocking, M. and Nicoll, R.S., 2020. End-Permian (252 Mya)

deforestation, wildfires and flooding???An ancient biotic crisis with lessons

for the present. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 529, p.115875.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X19305679

Yours,

Paul H.

Chicxulub impact acidified the ocean instantly

Chicxulub impact acidified the ocean instantly

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash
The Chicxulub event was as damaging to life in the oceans as it was to creatures on land, a study shows. New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/science/chicxulub-asteroid-ocean-acid.html

Tiny shell fossils reveal how ocean acidification can cause mass extinction By Julie Zaugg, CNN, October 22, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/europe/ocean-acidification-asteroid-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

New study underpins the idea of a sudden impact killing off dinosaurs and much of the other life, GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre October 22, 2019
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191022080721.htm

The open access paper is:

Michael J. Henehan, Andy Ridgwell, Ellen Thomas, Shuang Zhang, Laia Alegret, Daniela N. Schmidt, James W. B. Rae, James D. Witts, Neil H. Landman, Sarah E. Greene, Brian T. Huber, James R. Super, Noah J. Planavsky, Pincelli M. Hull,
2019, Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth system recovery followed the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub ??impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Oct 2019, 201905989; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905989116
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/15/1905989116

Yours,

Paul H.

Younger Dryas platinum anomaly reported from South Carolina - Open Access paper

Younger Dryas platinum anomaly reported from South Carolina - Open Access paper

New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate
change for Earth, the Conversation, October 22, 2019
https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-that-an-extraterrestrial-collision-12-800-years-ago-triggered-an-abrupt-climate-change-for-earth-118244

the open access paper is:

Moore, C.R., M.J. Brooks, A.C. Goodyear, T.A. Ferguson, A.G. Perrotti, S. Mitra, A. Listecki,
B. King, D.J. Mallinson, C.S. Lane, B. Shapiro, J. Knapp, A. West, D.L. Carlson, W. Wolbach,
T.R. Them, S.M. Harris, and S. Pyne-O???Donnell.

2019. Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a platinum anomaly,
pyrogenic carbon peak, and coprophilous spore decline at 12.8 ka. Scientific Reports
volume 9, Article number: 15121 (2019)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51552-8

Regardless of how the platinum anomaly is interpreted, White Pond, a Carolina Bay predates
it and the Younger Dryas. Thus, the above paper further supports the idea that the Carolina Bays are not connected to Younger Dryas event as concluded by:

Schaetzl, R.J., Sauck, W., Heinrich, P.V., Colgan, P.M. and Holliday, V.T., 2019. Commentary on Klokocnik, J., Kostelecky, and Bezdek, A. 2019. The putative Saginaw impact structure, Michigan, Lake Huron, in the light of gravity aspects derived from recent EIGEN 6C4 gravity field model. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45: 1220.

A related paper is:

Krause, T.R., Russell, J.M., Zhang, R., Williams, J.W. and Jackson, S.T., 2019. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate, and fire history of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain based on a 30,000-yr multi-proxy record from White Pond, South Carolina, USA. Quaternary Research, 91(2), pp.861-880.
Vancouver

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Paul H.

Venus May Not Have Once Been As Earth-like As Scientists Thought

Venus May Not Have Once Been As Earth-like As Scientists Thought

Venus May Not Have Been As Earth-like As Scientists Thought
By Elizabeth Howell, SpaceCom, October 14, 2109
https://www.space.com/venus-not-so-earthlike-after-all.html

The papers are:

Wroblewski, F.W., Treiman, A.H., Bhiravarasu, S.S. and Gregg,
T.K.P., 2019, March. Ovda Fluctus, the Festoon Lava Flow on
Ovda Regio, Venus: Most Likely Basalt. In Lunar and Planetary
Science Conference (Vol. 50).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/pdf/1699.pdf

Wroblewski, F.B., Treiman, A.H., Bhiravarasu, S. and Gregg, T.K.,
2019. Ovda Fluctus, the Festoon Lava Flow on Ovda Regio,
Venus: Not Silica???Rich. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets,
124(8), pp.2233-2245.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JE006039

Yours,

Paul H.

The last mammoths were not killed by an extraterrestrial impact

The last mammoths were not killed by an extraterrestrial impact.

How the Last Woolly Mammoths Met Their Demise on a Remote Arctic Island
George Dvorsky, GIZMODO
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-last-woolly-mammoths-met-their-demise-on-a-remo-1838848130

the paper is:

Arppe, L., Karhu, J.A., Vartanyan, S., Drucker, D.G., Etu-Sihvola, H. and Bocherens, H., 2019. Thriving or surviving? The isotopic record of the Wrangel Island woolly mammoth population. Quaternary
Science Reviews, 222, no. 105884.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379119301398\\

Yours,

Paul H.

Evaluation of Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum impact trigger hypothesis

Evaluation of Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum impact trigger hypothesis

Galinkin, R.A., 2019. Evaluating the impact trigger hypothesis for the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum,
MS thesis, Rutgers University-School of Graduate Studies.
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60679/

https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60679/PDF/1/play/

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite found while looking for gold?

Meteorite found while looking for gold?

Man thinks he found gold; he actually found a rare meteorite By Emma Reed, September 24, 2019
https://www.science101.com/man-thinks-found-gold-rare-meteorite/

Yours,

Paul H.

Edscottite Found in Meteorite

Edscottite Found in Meteorite

Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite
By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/new-extraterrestrial-mineral-edscottite-meteorite.html

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature. Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mineral-never-seen-in-nature-found-buried-in-heart-of-mysterious-meteorite

This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral By Liam Mannix, The Age
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-meteorite-came-from-the-core-of-another-planet-inside-it-a-new-mineral-20190830-p52mhg.html

The paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich
Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/104/9/1351/573345/edscottite-fe5c2-a-new-iron-carbide-mineral-from

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite Hunting in China

Meteorite Hunting in China

China's meteorite hunters: Adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Man travels world to search for fragments, Nanlin Fang, CNN Sep 07, 2019
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/lifestyle/chinas-meteorite-hunters-adventurers-hoping-to-get-rich-from-rocks/1118315685

China's meteorite hunters: The adventurers hoping to get rich from rocks Meet Zhang Bo, who travels to far-flung locations armed with a metal detector, hoping he'll stumble on a fallen meteorite. CNN, Sept. 7, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-meteorite-hunters-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteorite shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

Meteorite shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet, Phil Plait, SYFY WIRE
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-meteorite-older-than-earth-shows-evidence-of-ancient-volcanism-on-a-long-gone-protoplanet

Oldest-ever igneous meteorite contains clues to planet building blocks. University of Arizona, August 2, 2018
https://asunow.asu.edu/20180802-oldest-ever-igneous-meteorite-contains-clues-planet-building-blocks

Taylor, G.J., 2018. The Oldest Volcanic Meteorite: A Silica-Rich Lava on a Geologically Complex Planetesimal. Planetary Science Research Discoveries Report, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug18/PSRD-oldest-volcanic-meteorite.pdf

Some papers are:

Hoffmann, V.H., Wimmer, K., Hochleitner, R. and Kaliwoda, M., 2018, March. Northwest Africa (NWA) 11119---Probing an Unknown Early Planetary Body?. In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Vol. 49).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/2468.pdf

Srinivasan, P., Dunlap, D.R., Agee, C.B., Wadhwa, M., Coleff, D., Ziegler, K., Zeigler, R. and McCubbin, F.M., 2018. Silica-rich volcanism in the early solar system dated at 4.565 Ga. Nature communications, 9(1), p.30-36. Open Access
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05501-0

Yours,

Paul H.

Libyan Desert Glass associated with shocked quartz (Open Access paper)

Libyan Desert Glass associated with shocked quartz (Open Access paper)

Koeberl, C. and Ferri??re, L., 2019. Libyan Desert Glass area in western Egypt: Shocked quartz in bedrock points to a possible deeply eroded impact structure in the region.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. (Open Access paper)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13250

" We interpret these observations to indicate that there was a physical impact event, not just an airburst, and that the crater has been almost completely eroded since its formation."

Yours,

Paul H.

Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1, 000-Foot Tsunami 06AUG2019

 Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1, 000-Foot Tsunami

Martian Meteor Collision May Have Triggered a 1,000-Foot Tsunami

https://www.livescience.com/66088-mars-tsunami-ground-zero.html

https://www.space.com/mars-ocean-mega-tsunami-impact-crater.html

https://bgr.com/2019/08/05/mars-crater-tsunami-study-asteroid/

The paper is:

Costard, F., Sjourn??, A., Lagain, A., Orm, J., Rodriguez, J.A.P.,

Clifford, S., Bouley, S., Kelfoun, K. and Lavigne, F., 2019. 

The Lomonosov Crater Impact Event: A possible Mega tsunami Source on Mars.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JE006008

Another paper is:

Rodriguez, J.A.P., Fairn, A.G., Tanaka, K.L., Zarroca, M., Linares,

R., Platz, T., Komatsu, G., Miyamoto, H., Kargel, J.S., Yan, J. and

Gulick, V., 2016. Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the

shorelines of an early Martian ocean. Scientific reports, 6, p.25106.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25106

http://cab.inta-csic.es/uploads/noticias/adjuntos/20160519151549.pdf

http://www.cab.inta.es/uploads/noticias/adjuntos/20160519151549.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

PDF file of 2019 Hiawatha “Crater” Poster 05AUG2019

 PDF file of 2019 Hiawatha “Crater” Poster

The Poster is:

 

Garde, A.A., Funder, S., Guvad, C., Kjær, K.H., Larsen, 

N.K., Dahl-Møller, J., Nehrke, G., Sanei, H., Søndergaard, 

A.S. and Weikusat, C., 2019, March. Organic Carbon 

from the Hiawatha Impact Crater, North-West 

Greenland. In Lunar and Planetary Science 

Conference (Vol. 50).

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/eposter/1381.pdf

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019LPI....50.1381G/abstract

 

Your,

 

Paul H.

Peer review as the ‘gold standard’?

Peer review as the ‘gold standard’?

Why we shouldn't take peer review as the "gold standard"
It's too easy for bad actors to exploit the process and mislead the public
By Paul D. Thacker and Jon Tennant, Washington Post, August 1, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-we-shouldnt-take-peer-review-as-the-gold-standard/2019/08/01/fd90749a-b229-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

The Radical Transformation of the Textbook
Brian Barrett, Wired, august 4, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/digital-textbooks-radical-transformation/

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Paul H.

Moonrise - Washington Post Podcast Series 20JUL2019

 Moonrise - Washington Post Podcast Series

Moonrise - Washington Post Podcast Series

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/podcasts/moonrise-the-origins-of-apollo-11-mission/

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Paul H.

Meteorite collections and researchers after the Brazil’s National Museum inferno 19JUL2019

 Meteorite collections and researchers after the Brazil’s National Museum inferno

The below article mentions the fate of meteorite collections and misfortunes
of meteorite researchers after flames consumed Brazil's National Museum.

The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno
Nearly a year after flames consumed Brazil's National Museum
in Rio de Janeiro, researchers are struggling to revive their work
and resume their lives. by Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, Nature news
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02141-2

Yours,

Paul H.

Coastal Chevrons and Boulders – Room for Misinterpretation 13JUL2019

Coastal Chevrons and Boulders – Room for Misinterpretation

A paper worth reading is:

Spiske, M., Garcia Garcia, A.M., Tsukamoto, S. and Schmidt, V.,
High energy inundation events versus long term coastal
processes room for misinterpretation. Sedimentology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sed.12524


Spiske et al. (2019) discuss the controversy concerning the
origin of two coastal features, coastal chevrons (large
parabolic sand bodies) and coastal boulders. Because
of their large clast size, the coastal boulders are often
used as indicators of prehistoric tsunamis and storms.
Coastal chevrons are often attributed to either (mega)
tsunami, possibly caused by oceanic impacts, or to
MIS 5 "superstorms" as in case of the Bahamas and
Bermuda.


What I have not seen anyone discuss in the controversy
about coastal chevrons and coastal boulders is what is
known in geomorphology as the principle of equifinality,
in which different starting points for a given geomorphic
system results in similar end states. In simpler English,
equifinality postulates that similar landforms might arise
as a result of quite different sets of geologic and / or
geomorphic processes and histories. According to this
principle, a person might suggest that it is possible
coastal chevrons and coastal boulders can be produced
by both high energy inundation events versus long term
coastal processes. As a result, such features are not an
unique indicator of either a specific event or process.
Even in case of high energy inundation events (tsunamis,
"superstorms," and storms), it might be very difficult
to distinguish the specific type of event that created
a specific set of coastal chevrons and coastal boulders.


Some equifinality papers

Beven, K., 1996. 12 Equifinality and Uncertainty in
Geomorphological Modelling. In The Scientific Nature
of Geomorphology: Proceedings of the 27th Binghamton
Symposium in Geomorphology, Held 27-29 September,
1996 (Vol. 27, p. 289). John Wiley & Sons.

Beven, K., 2006. A manifesto for the equifinality thesis.
Journal of hydrology, 320(1-2), pp.18-36.

Phillips, J., 1997. Simplexity and the reinvention of
equifinality. Geographical Analysis, 29(1), pp.1-15.

A superstorm reference.

Hearty, P.J. and Tormey, B.R., 2017. Sea-level change and
superstorms; geologic evidence from the last interglacial
(MIS 5e) in the Bahamas and Bermuda offers ominous
prospects for a warming Earth. Marine Geology, 390,
pp.347-365

In other news, my family is hunkered down with our natural
gas standby generator on what passes for "high," ground in
Louisiana and prepared for Hurricane Barry. Nothing to do
now but listen to news and read a book and wait for it.

Yours,

Paul H.

Younger Dryas Apocalypse - Sedgwick’s "Historic Error" Corrected :-) :-) :-) 09JUN2019

Younger Dryas Apocalypse - Sedgwick’s "Historic Error" Corrected :-) :-) :-)

Hi,
  It is utterly amazing what gets occasionally past peer-review.
According to the web page of Mediterranean Archaeology &
Archaeometry, articles submitted to this journal "...are subject
to a minimum of two external peer reviews." Obviously,
something went horribly wrong with the peer-review process
in the case of the below article.

Jaye, M., 2019. The Flooding of the Mediterranean
Basin at the Younger-Dryas Boundary. Mediterranean
Archaeology & Archaeometry, 19(1).
http://maajournal.com/Issues2019a.php and
http://maajournal.com/#mw999

At its bottom, there is a note on Jaye's web page at:
https://theworldwideflood.com/author/theworldwideflood/

"PS I submitted this essay in Nov 2017 to the National
Association of Scholars who declined to publish it because
it did not fit within our current editorial plans for Academic
Questions.???"

An earlier example of the abject failure of peer-review
in archaeology is:

Cholleti, E.R., Vaddadi, K. and Yadav, A.H.K., 2017.
Puratana Aakasha-Yantrika Nirmana Sadhanavasthu
(Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials).
Materials Today: Proceedings, 4(8), pp.7704-7713.

Apparently, the editors had a change of mind and the
"Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials"
paper was only a couple of months ago retracted.


RETRACTED: Puratana Aakasha-Yantrika Nirmana Sadhanavasthu
(Ancient Aero-mechanical manufacturing materials)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785317314001

Have fun,

Paul



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Baton Rouge, LA 70809

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Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain 09JUN2019

 Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain

Ditch the GPS. It???s ruining your brain.

By M.R. O'Connor, Washington Post. June 5, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ditch-the-gps-its-ruining-your-brain/2019/06/05/29a3170e-87af-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Inferring meaning where there is none by geologists 02JUN2019

Inferring meaning where there is none by geologists

Perceived connections: Inferring meaning where there is none
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/Dec-2018/Feature-3

Meaningless data are tough words to swallow. John Armitage and
Tom Coulthard argue that Earth scientists must face up to the fact
that some observations might be an aggregation of seemingly
random events, where there is no cause and effect.

Papers

Armitage, J. & Coulthard, T., Perceived connections: Inferring
meaning where there is none. Geoscientist 28 (11), 18-21, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1144/geosci2018-030

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/Geoscientist/2018/December%202018/F3_Dec%202018.pdf?la=en


Falk, R. and Konold, C., 1997. Making sense of randomness: Implicit
encoding as a basis for judgment. Psychological Review, 104(2), p.301-318
https://www.srri.umass.edu/publications/falk-1997msr/

https://www.srri.umass.edu/sites/srri/files/FalkKonold1997/index.pdf


A related editorial well worth finding and reading is:

Wright, V.P., 2019. Memes, False News, and the Death of Empiricism.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, 89(4), pp.310-311.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article-abstract/89/4/310/570050

Yours,

Paul H.

We all have our "bad rock days" 29MAY2019

 We all have our "bad rock days"

There are some days, which are bad rock days, that person wishes

they could have stayed in bed. In case of the Colorado Department

of Transportation, there is:

Boulder the size of a building blocks Colorado highway

Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, May 25, 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/huge-boulder-blocks-co-highway-trnd/index.html

The approximate location of this slide is 37 33'51.3"N 108 22'15.1"W .

A person even see one large rock ready to slide in Google Earth.

Giant Rock 'the Size of a Building' Is Blocking a Highway

in Colorado 'Indefinitely'. The two boulders weigh 2.3

million and 8.5 million pounds, respectively

By Rachel DeSantis, People Magazine, May 26, 2019

https://people.com/human-interest/giant-rock-blocks-colorado-highway/

Massive boulder 'the size of a building' blocks highway

ABC Television Stations. Published on May 25, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h8VSJcvXbI

Yours,

Paul H.

Reidite implies asteroid impact created Libyan Desert Glass 29MAY2019

 Reidite implies asteroid impact created Libyan Desert Glass

Mystery of Libyan desert glass solved at last. Famous
since the time of King Tut the origin of the scattered
glass fragments has long puzzled researchers. Aaron
Cavosie from Australia's Curtin University explains.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/mystery-of-libyan-desert-glass-solved-at-last

Planetary scientists unravel mystery of Egyptian
desert glass by Curtin University, PhysOrg
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-planetary-scientists-unravel-mystery-egyptian.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/exotic-glass-in-egypt-was-created-by-a-meteorite-impact-millions-of-years-ago

100-Year Mystery Solved, Yellow Glass In Egyptian
Desert Caused By Meteorite Strike, Athena Chan, Tech Times
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/243406/20190518/100-year-mystery-solved-yellow-glass-in-egyptian-desert-caused-by-meteorite-strike.htm

The paper is:

Cavosie, A.J. and Koeberl, C., 2019. Overestimation of
threat from 100 Mt class airbursts? High-pressure
evidence from zircon in Libyan Desert Glass. Geology.
DOI: 10.1130/G45974.1
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/570318/Overestimation-of-threat-from-100-Mtclass

Another open access paper is:

Koeberl, C. and Ferrire, L., 2019. Libyan Desert Glass area
in western Egypt: Shocked quartz in bedrock points to a
possible deeply eroded impact structure in the region.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science. open access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maps.13250

Yours,

Paul H.