COMET IMPACT 12,900 YEARS AGO
THE PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTION
From Book I - Chapter 3 THE LAST GREAT EXTINCTION
Approximately 12,900 years ago, a comet struck the Earth at several locations. Major impact sites were in the North American and Polar ice sheets, South America, Eurasia, Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. The comet strike resulted in the last world-wide extinction of large herbivores and civilizations.
In geologic terms this was The Quaternary Period and the end of the Pleistocene Epoch. This event marked the Pleistocene Epoch Extinction worldwide. Over 200 species of large animals, all over the Earth, became extinct at this time and the event is known as the “Pleistocene Extinction”. Percentages of megafauna in the extinction ranged from 14% in Africa to +85% in Eurasia, North America, Australia and South Pacific Islands.
In North and South America most all of the large animal species became extinct. These extinct species included; the horse, camel, mastodon, mammoth, cave bear, giant sloth, saber toothed tiger and many others.
Evidence of the Pleistocene Extinction was found in the 1940s as mining equipment was clearing tundra north of Fairbanks Alaska and discovered frozen animal remains. These rotting carcasses were strewn in jumbled piles for hundreds of miles. The remains included mastodons, lions [possibly Tigers], horses, wolves, bears and many more species mixed with tundra, peat and trees. The New Mexico Professor issuing the report stated;
“The evidence immediately suggests an enormous tidal wave which raged over the land, tumbling animals and vegetation within its mass, which was in turn quick-frozen”.
At present, Fairbanks Alaska is 400 miles north of the Gulf of Alaska, 450 miles south of Prudhoe Bay and about 400 miles east of the Bering Sea. The town is at an elevation of 450 feet and is just south of the Yukon River. The Tsunami [tidal wave] traveled from the Canadian Basin [North Pole] through the dry Bering Sea area, over 400 miles up the Yukon River valley and deposited its rubble at an elevation of over 700 feet above the Pleistocene sea levels. I have not computed the height and speed of the Tsunami, but it must have been massive and fast.
At the date of impact, sea levels were down about 250 feet [60+ meters] which put the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea in dry land. The islands north of Canada, extending to Greenland, were all connected by dry land [except for glaciers]. The only ocean water was in the Canada Basin and in the Eurasian Basin on either side of the North Pole. For a Tsunami to have caused the destruction in Alaska and Siberia, a major impact would have had to be at or near the North Pole.
Dr. Richard Firestone and Dr. William Topping of Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, and Geologist Allen West, along with over 20 scientists published their findings in 2005. Of course, Academia has been trying to show the findings are not supported. Sound familiar?
“Our research indicates that a 10 kilometer [6.2 miles] wide comet, which may have been composed from the remnants of a Supernova explosion, could have hit North America 13,000 years ago”. [Dr. Richard Firestone]
The Comet Impact discovery by Dr. Firestone and team was a history clarifying scientific report; his summary report and reply to skeptics in Academia who claim no impact occurred, is detailed in the Appendix of this writing.
Since the release of Dr. Firestone’s group findings other researchers have followed with their own investigations and have corroborated his findings. They have found the “Event Boundary Layer” of high concentrations of typical elements from space in forms of spheroids and other nano-shapes interspersed with carbon fallout. One of the premier research groups is NARCIS of the Netherlands, whose finds included an impact site from this Comet near Belgium.
Comets typically will break-up due to gravity as they near a planet and will strike in many locations at 30,000 to 40,000 miles per hour. The North American Laurentide Ice sheet impact was the greatest, with near equal and smaller impacts around the globe. The most immediate inflow of fresh water into the Pacific Ocean came from the Cordilleran Ice Sheet which covered the western half of North America. What followed is recorded in all ancient history, folk-lore and religious parables as “The Great Deluge”.
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The first destructive force from an impact is the thermal shock wave. It moves out at super-sonic speed, leveling everything for close to a thousand miles in every direction, killing most animal life. Next the heat generated sets everything ablaze and the rebound of ejected material filled the atmosphere with ice and debris, resulting in a global winter and then the rains began. Instant super-cold freezing temperatures returned rapidly after the impact.
Sea Levels rose from -560 feet in 20,000 BCE to -360 feet in 13,000 BCE and to -250 feet when the comet impacted the Earth. Sea Levels rose from -52 feet in 6,000 BCE to -30 feet of today’s levels by 5,500 BCE and increased +10 feet over todays’ level in 4,000 BCE. Sea levels continued to rise with a gradual increase to present day. Global average temperatures were about 40º F colder at the glacial maximum and sea levels were -170 meters [-560 feet] exposing vast areas as dry land.
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Upper Pleistocene civilizations on all continents were lost in this great comet strike. In North America, an impact on the 2-mile-thick ice killed most of the Human population. The Comet Impact ended the Clovis Civilization, which vanished with evidence of their sites found from the East Coast to the West Coast. The civilization was named from a spear point first identified near Clovis New Mexico. In Europe near the areas of southern Spain and France the Aurignacian and Solutrean civilizations were decimated. Central and South American civilizations suffered similar extinction fates, although there were more pockets of survivors.
