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Hawaiian Emperor and the Yellowstone
25 March 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-hawaiian-emperor-undersea-mystery-revealed-supercomputers.html ... the Hawaiian Emperor seamount chain spans four thousand miles, stretching from the Hawaiian Islands to the Detroit seamount in the North Pacific.

Hiawatha Impact Crater New Date
12 March 2022 > CatastrophismDanish and Swedish researchers have now dated the giant Hiawatha crater, 31 km wide, discovered in Greenland, back in 2015. Go to https://phys.org/news/2022-03-giant-impact-crater-greenland-million.html ... The

Pilgrimage and the Devil in a Boot
11 March 2022 > ArchaeologyMedieval pilgrimage was popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. Hence, the popularity of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. This is a story about a group of

Bubbles
11 March 2022 > Astronomy, ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-massive-center-milky-supermassive-black.html ... the supermassive black hole thought to reside at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy is said to have started spewing out

Blobs in the Mantle
11 March 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-blobs-earth-mantle-unexpected-differences.html ... within Earth's Mantle there are two massive bob like structures, roughly on opposite sides of the planet. They are each around the

Nechtansmere
9 March 2022 > ArchaeologyGary sent in a link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10565141/ ... and the story is also at https://phys.org/news/2022-03-rare-pictish-stone-potential-site.html ... a large stone was pulled out of a farmers

Sodom
9 March 2022 > ArchaeologyIt seems the very word Sodom can spark off an internet firestorm. Who would have guessed? The latest issue of the newsletter of the Tall

Stonehenge Solar Calendar
6 March 2022 > ArchaeologyStonehenge as a solar calendar is back on the cards it would seem, after years of neglect as a subject spoken in mainstream circles. Timothy

Solar Illusion
5 March 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-solar-illusion-coronal-loops.html ... coronal loops are rope like strands of plasma that scientists think exist in the sun's atmosphere. They may actually be optical illusions.

Gradualism Restored
5 March 2022 > EvolutionAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-gradual-evolution-darwinian-theory.html ... the headline begins, gradual evolution is back. I didn't know it had gone away. A newly published paper supports the idea that

Chinese Crater
5 March 2022 > CatastrophismWilliam sent in a couple of links to the same story. See for example https://weather.com/science/space/video/largest-impact-crater-in-past-100000-years-found-in-china?cm_ven=hp-slot-3 ... See also Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 56, Nr, pages

End Permian
5 March 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-critical-factors-end-permian-mass-extinction.html ... the end of Permian event included a lot of volcanic activity and seismology. We may also note it also involved the initial

The Black Hole that was not a Black Hole
5 March 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-closest-black-hole.html ... new research using the Very Large Telescope Array and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer have revealed that a black hole does not

Skye Pterosaur
24 February 2022 > BiologyAt www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10537923/ ... the same story can be seen at a variety of links and websites. I've chosen the Daily Mail link because it comes

Hopewell Decline
19 February 2022 > ArchaeologyThere are now a lot of web sites to visit on the decline of the Hopewell culture, which was based in the valley of the

Moving the Poles
18 February 2022 > ElectromagnetismSome interesting articles in the current issue of 'New Concepts in Global Tectonics' several of which have a geomagnetic connection. See www.ncgtjournal.com and click on

Anglo Saxons
18 February 2022 > ArchaeologySusan Oosthuizen it the author of 'The Emergence of the English' Leeds:2019, which questions the idea of a mass invasion by Anglo Saxons in the

Water on earth
18 February 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-02-earth-1.html ... where did the water on earth come from? This new study effectively eliminates outer space via comets and meteorites as the source

A dinosaur eating crocodile
18 February 2022 > BiologyWilliam has provided the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-killer-crocodile-had-dinosaur-1030040... ... fossils of the beast were first found back in 2010 in eastern Australia. The fossil is said

Tilting the Earth
16 February 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-02-tilting-earth-crust-ancient-megafloods.html ... the headline caught my attention - tilting the earth's crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods. How does that happen? If the