"Diamonds, Mammoths and Comets"

 

Speaker: Allen West, Ph.D.

 

Allen West of GeoScience Consulting is an author, inventor,

and retired geophysical consultant to oil-and-gas and

mining companies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Middle East

and South America. He has appeared in TV programs for

National Geographic, Discovery Channel, History Channel and PBS.

 

The Talk

This is the graphics-rich story of 26 scientists from eighteen institutions, who followed multiple

trails of  evidence to uncover one of the greatest catastrophes of the human race.

They propose that an enormous space object, likely a fragmented comet, exploded over the Northern Hemisphere 12,900 years ago, producing massive detonations with more force than the world's entire nuclear arsenal.

 

In the aftermath, North America and Western Europe were dusted with nano-sized diamonds,

magnetic spherules, iridium, black carbon, and fullerenes filled with helium-3. Millions of animals

perished, as large animal species were pushed into extinction -- mammoths, mastodons,

American camels, American horses, and saber-toothed tigers. After having been around for

millions of years, those animals were gone in a geologic heartbeat.

 

They propose that the impact and the extinction of the megafauna caused a decline in human

populations and a major reorganization in the Clovis culture, as evidenced by the sudden

disappearance of Clovis points and the emergence of the Folsom type-style.