Panel Discussion #6 Clovis Comet

• Went back and looked at popular literature
• Suggests hype
• Demands info on processing the materials

• 1:30 Allen West takes mic
• Takes issue with exclusion of Tunguska-like multi bursts
• Cant argue, as Boslough,
• Repeats extensive evidence as exhaustively provided in published info
• Reference to previous evenings program
• Stresses again the extraordinary uniqueness of evidence in stratigraphical record
• Shift needed from classical view "big rock in crater" to modern view "that it hit the air -- instead of the earth"

• 5:40 Bunch takes mic
• Bunch -- older than dirt -- and helped develop shock quartz criteria
• KT, like the YD, has same pattern we see here
• Worked with Alvarez, et. al.
• Analogy to KT
• 34% of KT did not have shock indicators
• shock diamonds and melted particles found

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Clovis
• Comet
• Younger
• Dryas
• imapct
• extinction