We have a fantastic discussion with the one and only Randall Carlson about vulcanism, ancient mysteries, extinction events, the Younger Dryas, the Missoula Flood, Drumlins, Carolina Bays, the Great Chicago Fire, and much more!
We also discuss the upcoming Contact at the Cabin event with Randall and the guys from Grimerica in late May, which we will be attending, to go on field trips to sites of geological and archaeological interest.
Enjoy!
Two brothers explore the mysteries of the ages, the ancients, and the modern day
Friday, March 22, 2019
Episode #090: Randall Carlson
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| Glaciers carrying thick sediment layers |
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| Isostatic Rebound causing multiple shorelines |
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| Isostatic Depression and Rebound |
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| Fossil Shoreline of Lake Bonneville visible on mountains in Utah |
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| Fossil Shoreline in Utah |
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| Enormous volcanic ash layer |
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| Non-uniform volcanic ash layers, indicating catastrophic change interspersed with massive eruptions |
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| Diagram of Wisconsin Glaciation |
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| The Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin Glaciation |
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| Modern day glacial outburst flood |
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| Modern Glacial outburst flood |
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| Outburst Flood |
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| Outburst flooding |
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| 1980s Mt. St. Helens eruption |
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| St. Helens Cloud |
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| St. Helens Cloud |
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| St. Helens Cloud from far away |
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| Mt. St. Helens just before the eruption |
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| Mt. St. Helens from the same spot as above, four months after the eruption |
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| Helens explosive blast effect on nearby forests |
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| Destruction from Helens |
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| Helens forest devastation |
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| Forests destroyed |
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| Helens Aftermath |
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| Car buried in Helens ash fall |
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| Shattered tree trunk, Helens aftermath |
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| Mt. St. Helens today, forest and ecosystem recovered |
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| Carolina Bays LIDAR |
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| Carolina Bays |
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| Carolina Bays |
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| Original survey collage that showed Carolina Bays |
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| Lunar crater chain, possibly from disintegrating comet |
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| Lunar Crater chain |
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| Lake Superior, with Lake Nipigon possible impact crater to the north |
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| Lake Nipigon |
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| Nipigon southern boundary flood zone |
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| Nipigon flood zone empties into north lake Superior |
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| Isle Royale in Lake Superior, with clear flood flow etching of the basaltic bedrock |
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| Terrain view of Isle Royale |
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| Chicago Fire, Artist rendition |
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| Chicago fire, art |
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| Chicago fire, Art |
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| Chicago fire aftermath |
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| Hinckley fire,"The Suicide Express" |
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| Hinckley Fire Memorial |
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| Hinckley Fire paper |
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| Peshtigo Fire, art |
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| Peshtigo fire, survivor's testimonies |
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| Peshtigo fire, well marker |
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| Peshtigo fire cemetary marker |
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| Peshtigo fire mass grave marker |
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| 2017 Napa Valley fire |
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| 2017 fire aftermath |
Friday, March 15, 2019
Episode #089: Ancient Japan and the Jomon
We spend some time on listener comments and correspondence, reading them and responding in kind. Kyle then reads some fascinating news stories about ancient CMEs, and advanced mathematics describing why hipsters are the first to be annoying, anywhere.
After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.
After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.
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| Dragon Aurora |
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| More sky dragons |
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| Definitely a dragon |
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| Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel |
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| Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel |
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| Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed |
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| Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama |
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| Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain |
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| Kuromata Yama |
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| Very ancient Jomon stone circles |
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| Jomon circle |
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| Jomon stone circle |
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| Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions |
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| Examples of Jomon pottery |
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| Jomon "incense burner" |
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| Jomon pottery vessel |
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| Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks |
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| Very ancient Jomon pottery |
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| Highly stylized Jomon vessel |
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| Jomon pottery |
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| Jomon maze pattern vase |
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| Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size |
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| Jomon "Dogu" figurine |
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| Dogu |
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| Another example of strange Dogu figures |
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| Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes |
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| Dogu figure |
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| Very old dogu figurine |
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| Dogu |
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| Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine |
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Episode #088: Geology
We speak with Sheldon from the C-Word podcast and mine his brain for valuable nuggets of geological data. He has a degree in geology and has experience in using his degree in the field for oil, gas and mining industries.
We talk about uniformitarianism, catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, plate tectonics, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, vulcanism, rock formation and dating technologies, and pirates at strip clubs.
Thanks very much to The C Word for letting us borrow their geologist for one show! Check them out on Twitter @cwordpod and on iTunes.
Enjoy!
We talk about uniformitarianism, catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, plate tectonics, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, vulcanism, rock formation and dating technologies, and pirates at strip clubs.
Thanks very much to The C Word for letting us borrow their geologist for one show! Check them out on Twitter @cwordpod and on iTunes.
Enjoy!
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| Exposed mantle material at Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland |
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| "Ultramafic" rock, Gros Morne |
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| Subduction of oceanic crust |
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| Back-arc Basin and volcanic result of subduction |
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| The Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
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| Standing on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge exposed in Iceland |
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| Oceanic Gyre currents |
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