"GSA Today" Comments and Reply Published on Firestone's and Abott's Research

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 2 16:41:57 EDT 2008

1. The Original Paper by Printer and Ishman

Pinter, N., and S. E. Ishman, 2008,Impacts, mega-tsunami, and
other extraordinary claims. GSA Today. vol. 18, no. 1 pp. 37–38
Web page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1130%2FGSAT01801GW.1
PDF File - http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/1052-5173/18/1/pdf/i1052-5173-18-1-37.pdf

2. Bunch's and Others’ Comments

Bunch, T. P., J. Kennett, and D. K. Kennett, 2008, Comment:
Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims. GSA
Today. vol. 18, no. 6 p. 11
Web Page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1130%2FGSATG10C.1
PDF File - http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/1052-5173/18/6/pdf/i1052-5173-18-6-11.pdf

Bunch et al.'s SUPPLEMENTARY CALCULATIONS AND INFORMATION:
Web Page - http://ie.lbl.gov/mammoth/GSAToday.html

3. Firestone's and Others’ Comments

Firestone, R. B., and A. West, 2008, Impacts, mega-tsunami,
and other extraordinary claims: COMMENT. GSA Today Online.
April 2008, DOI: 10.1130/GSATG11C.1, p. e13
Web Page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-18-6-e13
PDF File - http://www.gsajournals.org/pdf/online_forum/i1052-5173-18-6-e13.pdf

4. Abbott's and Others’ Comments

Abbott, D. H., E. F. Bryant, V. Gusiakov, W. B. Masse, and
D. Breger, 2008, Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other
extraordinary claims: COMMENT. Published Online: April 2008,
DOI: 10.1130/GSATG9C.1, p. e12
Web Page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-18-6-e12
PDF File - http://www.gsajournals.org/pdf/online_forum/i1052-5173-18-6-e12.pdf

5. Printer's and Ishman’s Reply to the Above Comments

Pinter, N., and S. E. Ishman, 2008, Impacts, mega-tsunami,
and other extraordinary claims: REPLY: GSA Today online,
June 2008, DOI: 10.1130/GSATG13Y.1
Web Page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-18-6-e14
PDF file - http://www.gsajournals.org/pdf/online_forum/i1052-5173-18-6-e14.pdf

SUPPLEMENTARY CALCULATIONS AND INFORMATION, Pinter, N., and
S.E. Ishman, 2008. Reply to comments on “Impacts, megatsunami,
and other extraordinary claims.” GSA Today, vol. 18.
PDF file - http://www.geology.siu.edu/GSATSupplement.pdf

6. GSA Today: Comments and Replies web page - http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-static&name=i1052-5173-14-3

An interesting paper is:

Reimold W.U. 2007. The impact crater bandwagon. Meteoritics
& Planetary Science. v.42. p 1467–1472.

Yours,

Paul H.

Article About Firestone’s Hypotheses Published in “GSA Today”

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 7 17:02:13 EST 2008

An article, which includes comments about Firestone’s terminal
Pleistocene impact and other hypotheses has been published in
“GSA Today”. It is:

Pinter, N., and S.E. Ishman, 2008, Impacts, mega-tsunami, and
other extraordinary claims. GSA Today. vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 37-38.

This article can be downloaded from:

http://www.gsajournals.org/archive/1052-5173/18/1/pdf/i1052-5173-18-1-37.p

and

http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1130%2FGSAT01801GW.1

linked at:

http://www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1052-5173

Yours,

Paul H.

Three New Papers on Mythology and Meteorites

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 8 15:58:47 EDT 2007

Dear Friends,

The Geological Society of London has a new book concerning
the potential of myth to yield clues to geologic processes
and past geologic events. It is:

Piccardi, L., and W.B. Masse, 2007, Myth and Geology.
Geological Society of London Special Publication no. 273.

http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/vol273/issue1/

10-Digit ISBN: 1-86239-216-1
13-Digit ISBN: 978-1-86239-216-8
Three of the papers in this book are related to mythology and
either meteorites of extraterrestrial impacts. They are:

1. Myth and catastrophic reality: using myth to identify
cosmic impacts and massive Plinian eruptions in Holocene
South America by W. Bruce Masse1 & Michael J. Masse.

http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/273/1/177

2. Cosmogenic mega-tsunami in the Australia region: are
they supported by Aboriginal and Maori legends? by E.
Bryant, G. Walsh & D. Abbott.

http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/273/1/203

3. Meteorite records in the ancient Greek and Latin
literature: between history and myth by Massimo D'Orazio

http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/273/1/215

The PDF files of these articles can be downloaded
for free until June 18th.

Best

Paul H.