Catastrophic incidents, such as impacts by space rocks, even airburst events, or space debris intersecting Earth’s orbit, are capable of creating landscape fires as part of the whole event scenario. We have another example of this at https://phys.org/news/2025-11-early-triassic-sediments-reveal-earth.html … early Triassic sediments reveal evidence of wildfires. Although not specifically associated with the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event, as a result of dating sediments by uniformitarian principles, one can safely accept it was part and parcel of that event – and its aftermath. We are told volcanism around the world is what caused the mass extinctions when it would be more correct in saying that volcanism, like wildfires, broke out after whatever the catastrophic agent might have been. Indeed, the agent of destruction on a global scale can really only have an extraterrestrial origin. However, by only looking at what that agent of destruction initiated uniformitarians are able to ignore whatever was the real cause of what has been described as the biggest mass extinction event in Earth history. The researchers resorted to microscopic detail in order to pick out charcoal and fire damage in the sediments – mud and sand etc. The excavation was enacted on Svalbard, in the Norwegian Arctic region, an island archipelago.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-suez-rift-deemed-inactive-drifting.html … the Suez rift system is still active, we are told. It is rifting apart at the very most, half a millimetre a year. However, the bar is lower still as it moves between 0.13 and 0.53 millimetres per annum. A single millimetre in around 6 or 7 years. Make of that what you will.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-scientists-resurrect-1960s-continents.html … scientists have used data collected during the 1960s in order to bolster more recent data central to the thrust of their research. The idea was to re-examine the Rift system of the Afar region of Ethiopia. Apparently, this rift is also still being pulled apart, we are told. This of course has to be otherwise uniformitarian geology would be undermined. Common snese says the Rifting had an origin in a catastrophic and global event, and has since slowed down or stopped. As it also involves Plate Tectonics and the process by which the plates move around we have a double whammy to keep the uniformitarian system alive and thriving. Catastrophism must be excluded from the argument – by any means.