[meteorite-list] Sparkly rain

[Michael Farmer]

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


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


> From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>

> Subject: [meteorite-list] More golden showers

> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 10:36 PM

> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377449,00.html

> 

> Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age

> 

> Monday , July 07, 2008

> By Ker Than

> 

> LS

> ADVERTISEMENT

> 

> Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United

> States might have

> rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered

> over Canada and set

> North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of

> animals and humans.

> 

> New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in

> Ohio and Indiana

> reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada

> several thousand years

> ago. The question is, how?

> 

> "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that

> anyone knows of, but there

> are plenty of them in Canada," said retired

> geophysicist Allen West, who was

> involved in the study.

> 

> The discovery is consistent with a theory proposed by West

> and colleagues that a

> 3-mile-wide comet splintered over glaciers and ice sheets

> in eastern Canada

> about 12,900 years ago and wiped out man and beast.

> 

> "These would have been like ten thousand Tunguskas

> going off at once," said

> West, referring to a mid-air explosion over Siberia a

> century ago possibly

> caused by a fragmenting meteor.

> 

> Precious rain

> 

> The diamonds, gold and silver could have been ejected into

> the air during the

> blasts, West said, or they could have been carried south by

> rivers formed from

> the meltwater of liquified glaciers.

> 

> For several months following the comet strike, the skies

> rained precious stone

> and metals, the researchers speculate. Diamonds drizzled

> down by the tons.

> 

> "Some of them you couldn't see, and animals

> would've been breathing them in,"

> West told LiveScience. "But other ones would clearly

> have been visible. They

> might've even hurt if they hit you."

> 

> The larger diamonds were visible to the naked eye and

> dropped like hail stones

> within seconds of the blasts, West said.

> 

> The smallest diamonds, the "size of cold

> viruses," would have lingered in the

> atmosphere for weeks or months, eventually wafting down to

> Earth like expensive

> snowflakes.

> 

> Killed man and beast

> 

> Flaming fragments of the comet crashing to Earth sparked

> forests fires around

> the globe, West contends.

> 

> The intense heat from the blasts set the very air on fire.

> North America's

> grassland, the furs of animals, the hair and clothing of

> humans — all would have

> been set ablaze.

> 

> West and his colleagues have proposed that the comet strike

> contributed to the

> extinction of several species of North American megafauna,

> including mammoths

> and mastodons, and led to the early demise of the Clovis

> culture, a Stone Age

> people who had only recently immigrated to the continent.

> 

> The multiple airbursts might have also caused large amounts

> of fresh water to be

> dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily disrupting

> currents and prompting a

> sudden global cold snap called the Younger Dryas period.

> 

> "The kind of evidence we are finding does suggest that

> climate change at the end

> of the last Ice Age was the result of a catastrophic

> event," said study team

> member Ken Tankersley, an anthropologist at the University

> of Cincinnati.

> 

> While the discoveries in Ohio and Indiana are consistent

> with the theory of a

> comet colliding with Earth during the last Ice Age, West

> cautions that it is not

> a "smoking gun."

> 

> "We're a long way from saying categorically that

> these things got here because

> of this event," West said. "They're

> consistent, but we've got a lot more work to

> do to show there's a direct connection."

> 

> The researchers are preparing to submit their research to a

> scientific journal.

> 

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