Episode #294: Drilling for Ashes - with Dr. Joanne Ballard

We met Dr. Ballard at the Cosmic Summit, and decided we'd love to have her on the podcast to discuss her work. She is a Geologist and Biogeographist, and a member of the Comet Research Group. She became interested in the YDIH and started drilling lake cores looking for evidence of biomass burning.
She joins us this episode to discuss her background, her interest in the YDIH, and her related field and lab work, as well as some of her current interests and possible future projects.

You can find out more about her here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research

 

Links to her thesis as discussed in the episode:

A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463

Joanne Ballard PhD Dissertation, https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/
Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A.

She also sent us a lot of interesting links to articles and papers after the episode, listed below:

Sergei Leshchinskiy study on bony malformation of late Pleistocene mammoths of Siberia and Poland, acidification of the landscape
https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0081-new-theory-on-why-the-woolly-mammoth-became-extinct/?comm_order=best
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/616417

Did inbreeding doom the mammoths - fossils from the North Sea, Jelle Reumer
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-inbreeding-doom-mammoth

Pygmy mammoths of the Channel Island of California
https://www.amazon.com/Pygmy-Mammoths-Channel-Islands-California/dp/0962475084

Other late occurring relict populations of mammoths occurred on Wrangei Island (Siberia), Pribolof Island, St Paul Island.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040618070946.htm#:~:text=Using%20accelerator%20mass%20spectrometer%20(AMS,after%20the%20last%20glacial%20maximum.

Hartnagel and Bishop 1921. Online book, read about Mastodons, Mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York state, buried in the peat.  161 pages.  
https://books.google.com/books?id=9rxRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Blue Babe, bison carcass 50,000 years old, Professor Dale Guthrie
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska

A North American permafrost study.  For reference regarding the shaken--not stirred cocktail of mammals/trees/sediments/ice.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.12036

Episode #273: The Path of the Pole - Part 9

We continue our in-depth reading and discussion on Charles Hapgood's Path of the Pole, finishing up the section on megafauna extinctions in North America at the end of the last ice age, and moving into evidence for massive geological upheaval in South America in the recent past. Hapgood talks about the Altiplano area of Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, and Tiahuanaco, all of which show signs of being involved in an enormous geological uplift that brought the lake from contact with the ocean to its present location far above sea level.

 

Get the Kindle version of the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Episode #272: Ice Age Bones with George Howard

George Howard joins us to discuss his knowledge of the Alaskan Pleistocene bonebeds we were reading about in Path of the Pole. George has a lot of interesting information about these deposits, including a Comet Research Group study on cosmic material recovered from sediments embedded in the bones themselves.

We also discuss a similar massive bonebed right here in Texas that George has known about for many years.  For various reasons, these bonebeds haven't really been properly studied, but maybe that will change in the near future...

Visit George's website, the Cosmic Tusk: https://cosmictusk.com/ Sign up for the Cosmic Summit 2023: https://cosmicsummit2023.com/

Episode #271: The Path of the Pole - Part 8

Back to the book report! We had a great time in Egypt, and there are more Egypt episodes coming, but meanwhile we still have to complete Charles Hapgood's Path of the Pole.

This week we complete the section on mountain building, continental drift, and crustal composition, and move into chapter ten, which is about the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.

 

Executive Producer:
Annabel