Originally posted by TheWayISeeIt

1. The Carolina Bays -- TWISI NOTE: I am going to ask his opinion on the reasons for the diffuculties and disagreement from many quarters about dating these.

2. Evidence of the ecological disaster exists in a thin layer of sediment that has been found from Alberta to New Mexico. The sediment layer contains high concentrations of iridium, fullerenes and other compounds associated with space rocks and impacts. The concentration of the iridium in the sediment layer dating back to 12,900 years is several times higher than normal. It also contains compounds called "fullerenes" with extraterrestrial gases in them, as well as glasslike carbons that require extraordinarily high temperatures to form. It is a very discrete, well-defined layer.

3. A group of US scientists that include West reported that they have found a layer of microscopic diamonds at 26 different sites in Europe, Canada and America.

4. Coincided with the last catastrophic animal extinction, more than three-fourths of the large Ice Age animals, including woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant bears, died out.

5. Samples of diamonds, gold and silver that have been found in Hamilton and Clermont counties in Ohio and Brown County in Indiana have been conclusively sourced through X-ray diffractometry in the lab of UC Professor of Geology, Warren Huff back to the diamond fields region of Canada. You might think of this as chemical fingerprinting.

6. Evidence of ice age civilization in Gobekli Tepe in Turkey that ended very suddenly. The entire site was entombed under tons of earth.

7. Evidence by William Scott Anderson of ocean diatoms found directly under the boulders deposited when the ice sheets melted in Wisconsin.

8. Evidence of Lake Missoula, Altai and Agassiz megafloods.

4. Coincided with the last catastrophic animal extinction, more than three-fourths of the large Ice Age animals, including woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant bears, died out.

Much of the mass extinctions of large mammals occurred in the Northern Hemisphere at the time period. This is probably logical because the origin of the flood water is North America. I believe Australia suffered a mass extinction around 50,000 years ago. Although woolly mammoths became extinct about 4,000 years ago, as I recall, the mammoths disappeared from almost the entire earth except for one location near Russia where a small group survived for several millennia until they died out about 4,000 tears ago.

"What we have found is, several big Carolina bays are lined with diamonds," he said. "This is the first time extraterrestrial materials have been found lining the bays."

West has found diamonds inside the carbon spherules and trapped in the glasslike carbon. He says that suggests, but does not yet prove, that an extraterrestrial impact created the bays.

"Even though the diamonds are the strongest of those 14 markers, it's the collective weight of all 14 of them that's important," West said. "It's very difficult to argue that all 14 of them, in the same layer across two continents, is accidental. It wasn't accidental when the dinosaurs went extinct, and it's not accidental now, we think."

the skeptics who went to the comet impact/implosion region found the evidence they were going to use to debunk Bunch, Wittke, et al's. comet-impact-causing-end-of-ice- age/mass extinction theory actually PROVED IT.

cormac- So it's still in the realm of speculation and theory and not fact. And even if it is confirmed that the Carolina Bays were created by impact it still doesn't PROVE that it CAUSED the end of the ice age/mass extinction.

Hills point to catastrophic Ice Age floods

Fields of low hills that cover parts of inland Canada and the northern United States may seem quite distant from the watery world of Atlantis. Yet a Canadian geologist proposes these hills formed from huge Ice Age floods that sharply raised global sea levels and could have spawned myths of a swamped continent.

"There's nothing in recorded history that matches the size of these floods," says John Shaw of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, who has estimated the extent of the floods from the size of the ridges.

According to Shaw, heat from the Earth (TWISI NOTE: Or from a massive comet that impacted into the ice shelf creating massive heat beneeth the surface of the ice. See: Marusek’s theory for detail. ) formed huge lakes of meltwater that remained trapped beneath the North American ice sheet. As the sheet began to retreat near the end of the glacial age, the water broke through and flowed in torrents down to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. While flowing under the ice cap, water would have surged in vast, turbulent sheets that sculpted and scoured drumlins. Each flood lasted until the weight of the ice cap once again shut off the outlet of the covered lake, Shaw says.

Through simple calculations described in the September GEOLOGY, Shaw estimates that 84,000 cubic kilometers of water must have discharged during the creation of one large drumlin field in northern Saskatchewan. Upon reaching the ocean, this flood would have raised global sea levels by 23 centimeters during a few days or weeks, he says.

Shaw's hypothesis echoes ideas raised 14 years ago by a group of oceanographers who studied the ancient remains of one-celled animals buried under sediment on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. The ratios of oxygen isotopes in these organisms suggested that sometime around 11,500 years ago, a large amount of freshwater entered the gulf, says Cesare Emiliani of the University of Miami in Coral Gables. On the basis of the isotope studies, Emiliani and his colleagues theorized that a sudden influx of meltwater from the ice sheet could have rapidly raised sea levels, sparking myths of a great deluge.

Through simple calculations described in the September GEOLOGY, Shaw estimates that 84,000 cubic kilometers of water must have discharged during the creation of one large drumlin field in northern Saskatchewan. Upon reaching the ocean, this flood would have raised global sea levels by 23 centimeters during a few days or weeks, he says.

A round of further underwater explorations was made in the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay) site by the NIOT team from 2003 to 2004, and the samples obtained of what was presumed to be pottery were sent to laboratories in Oxford, UK and Hanover, Germany, as well as several institutions within India, to be dated by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence dating techniques. These pieces returned dates ranging from 13000 ± 1950 BP up to the oldest at 31270 ± 2050 BP, leading to NIOT's chief geologist Badrinaryan Badrinaryan stating that they had uncovered the earliest-known pottery remains in the world, from about 31000 BP