https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex We head back to Meteor Crater and dig into the definitive 1997 paper by David Kring on the effects of the blast wave from the central Arizona impact 50,000 years ago. Much was learned from the detonations of nuclear weapons during the 1950's, with numerous craters blasted out in the Yucca Flats of Nevada. The estimates for a similar event every 1600 years are pondered, and we figure that those...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 52
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Reviewing our trip into northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah, as RC shares his images and scrolls around maps. We visited Sedona, Meteor Crater, Rock Art Ranch, Monument Valley, the Great Goosenecks, Mexican Hat, Valley of the Gods, Montezuma's "Castle", Montezuma's Well, and Tuzigoot. Ideal weather and an awesome group of people made for a memorable weekend away! Exploring, questioning,...
Nov 30, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 51
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC and crew talk a bit about sites that they'll be visiting on their "Southwest Experience" tour out of Sedona, which leads to some reminiscing about prior trips and a retreat that RC attended in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains above the San Luis Valley. Getting back to the "same sediment", we are reminded of the link between the micro/macro evidence that can assist with the identificati...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 50
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Looking to continue the discussion on drumlins, RC and crew again attempt to grok the widespread shifts that would have filled the many proglacial lakes and released the catastrophic drainings across the landscapes. What was the chronology of these interrelated events, and could the time-scale be compressed from what has been figured for decades? While making repeated references to the "Missou...
Nov 14, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 49
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex We look back at last week's lesson on drumlins from guest Jerome Lesemann, marveling as it seems he did, at the "absolutely astounding" scale of the water-flushed features created at the bed of a continental ice sheet. Many questions remain about the source of the meltwater and the details of massive Glacial Lake Agassiz. Its release thru Big Stone Lake on the Minnesota River has left many clu...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 48
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Jerome Lesemann, from Vancouver Island University, is a drumlin expert, and student and colleague of pioneer of the Meltwater Hypothesis for the formation of drumlins – John Shaw. After some introductory reminiscing, we let Jerome have the floor and educate us about the enigmatic geomorphological features known as drumlins. Their presence far and wide across North America, beneath the former c...
Oct 08, 2020•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 47
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex While reviewing the events around the catastrophic drainings of Glacial Lake Agassiz, the ongoing question arises: What was the impulse of energy that initiated the domino procession of megafloods? We continue to marvel at the oversized mid-continent spillways in the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin – investigating multiple sites with the "advanced viewer" on the USGS National Map website, wi...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 46
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC wonders why there has been no coherent theory that connects all the known megaflood events with the rapid deglaciation from 14.6 – 11.6ka. Lake Agassiz was like an inland sea of fresh water, dwarfing the modern "Great Lakes" that drained off thru multiple routes back to the oceans, in many places with known catastrophic erosion. Massive mid-continent spillways contain the meandering underfi...
Sep 26, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 45
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex As we get deeper into the geomorphic evidence for megafloods, RC provides some historical reference for the evolution of the so-called "Missoula Floods" that were identified in the 1920's by Harlen Bretz, who traversed the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington. He called them the Spokane Floods and speculated that the floods came from accelerated melting of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, but l...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 52 min
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex We look again at articles that purport to kill the whole Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) and deem highly credentialed scientists as "outsiders", while neglecting to report any follow-up that challenges their misleading headlines. As we shift into macro-scale evidence, we'll show the geomorphic imprints right into the surface of the Earth of gigantic megafloods – meltwater episodes of in...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 53 min
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC reviews evidence for nanodiamonds in the Oklahoma Panhandle, with a hint at a more recent and local impact event, and in the eastern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Can nanodiamonds be produced terrestrially? A chart of the Volcanic Explosivity Index leads RC to talk about ash from Mount St. Helens that has been found and dated within the Scablands floods' rhythmites, and how those were ...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 42
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Randall introduces the most comprehensive paper detailing the findings of nanodiamonds at 24 sites in ten countries across three continents, and then reverts to a 2008 contribution that sought to slam the YDIH as soon as it was presented, noting the odd timing, fallacy-filled arguments and weak statements, but also giving credit for a few things these critics got correct in their paper. We'd l...
Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 41
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex We talk more about the curious character Jeremy, and his role in the past few decades of knowing RC – geologic explorations and his first Carolina Bay overflight, debating Sasquatch and designing drawing compasses – until his recent disappearance into the Pacific Northwest. Multiple adventures into the Appalachians revealed scoured valleys, filled with cobbles and boulders that tell a specific...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 40
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Russ inquires when we'll be getting into the macro-scale "footprints" of catastrophe, so RC reviews the necessity to get these details and fingerprints covered thoroughly, as we are beginning to make the deliberate segue from the YDB evidence into the megafloods. He shares multiple accounts of meteors and fireballs reported in Popular Astronomy during the early 20th century, culminating with a...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 39
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Randall reviews some of the Tunguska witnesses' extraordinary accounts and shares photos from Leonid Kulik's team excursions into the blast zone (treks that are worthy of a high-budget movie) as we ponder what forces could have inspired the frightful anecdotes and created the many odd features that remain – some of them reminiscent of Carolina Bays. A quote from Isaac Asimov points out the coi...
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 38
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex In his seemingly round-about but deftly interweaving style, RC collates some of the factors regarding the Younger Dryas and how cosmic lessons from recent events are lending insights that can be applied to solve the mystery. He highlights our unique circumstance with the advancements of technology that we employ to "see" Earth's ecosystem in the micro to macro scales, and how we can piece toge...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 37
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Looking back to the origin of the Taurid meteor stream and its fragmenting/disintegrations possibly timing with the climatic changes over the last 25k years, with one of its members having been the "Tunguska" object that exploded over Siberia in 1908, RC reviews the comparable explosive powers in nuclear testing and impact cratering events. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Jovian impacts and the Tunguska ...
Jun 30, 2020•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 36
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC pulls an edge model of a dodecahedron from his bookshelf and the description of its properties evolves into speculation about our planet being engineered and the possibilities of tweaking the system. Then returning to the evidence from the Greenland ice cores for extraordinary continental-scale wildfires, we discuss the possible weather changes that result from landscapes devoid of vegetati...
Jun 25, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 35
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC and crew continue to review and discuss the scientific papers that have compiled evidence in support of a major catastrophe at the Younger Dryas Boundary. The Channel Islands off the southern California coast reveal massive fires and floods at that time and a quick shift from forests to grasslands. We puzzle over critics who attribute the transitions to climate change, but don't consider wh...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 34
The question of "where are all the human remains" opened again the Anzick-1 mystery at the end of Ep033, to which Kyle needs to make some corrections to his reporting of the story of the original discovery in Montana in 1968. Needless to say, the controversy over the site and the dating of the findings continue... Support Randall Carlson's efforts to discover and share pivotal paradigm-shifting information! Improve the quality of the podcast and future videos. Allow him more time for his researc...
Jun 15, 2020•13 min
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC's background image of massive glacial erratic "Okotoks" spurs discussion of methods for moving megaliths. Then carrying on from Ep032, we look at Lac St-Jean as a potential impact site with the Saguenay River fjord as an outflow channel, linked to evidence from YDB layers at PA and NJ Clovis sites, that contain spherules and osmium traceable to lithologies present in Quebecia. Similar featu...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 33
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex RC and crew look at Lac Saint-Jean as a potential impact site, with comparisons to Lake Nipigon. Several other Patreon contributors' questions and comments are addressed, but Randall dives deep on one in particular that sees the difficulty in sourcing the heat/energy required to shift out of an Ice Age. Quoting extensively from published mid-70's papers, he confirms that this "Energy Paradox" ...
May 23, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 32
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Again considering the evidence that needs technical enhancements to analyze, we look at the variety of microspherules that have been recovered from 18 sites across four continents, and the graphs that show great abundances of the proxies, many of which have been shaped at over 3000 degrees, peaking right along with the YDB. Tangential discussions address the recurrence of the Phi ratio in meas...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 31
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Continuing to look at products of hyper-velocity impact events, we peruse microscopically enhanced spherules that are repeatedly found in association with the Younger Dryas Boundary - now across four continents, bolstering the idea that this event was truly global in scope. Some of the proxies correlate with the 26 million year old Libyan Desert Glass and also the products that resulted from n...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 30
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Types of evidence can be classified as footprints, that are obvious - like an impact crater, or fingerprints, that require enhancements with technology to assess – like the spectrum of microspherules at the YDB horizon or the variety of indicators that are retrieved from ice cores. RC details the differences between airbursts and impacts, along with the types of incoming objects and the effect...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 29
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex After revisiting some recent topics, RC starts in on the commonality of legends of cyclic catastrophes due to floods and fires, and the reasons why Native Americans didn't adopt stories of a great flood from visiting missionaries. We show evidence of huge floods that occurred across the Pacific Northwest, and imagine what survivors of those events might experience after the destruction of thei...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 28
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Comet Atlas is disintegrating, so RC goes into more details about the five stages of the life-cycle of comets, including some speculations on what may perturb them out of their deep space hibernation, including the outer gas giants' orbital distances that are exactly what they need to be to create a planetary bucket-brigade. Furthering the discussion on Platinum Group Metals, or PGM's, he revi...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 27
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex The crew discuss incoming Comet Atlas, parabolic orbits and the expectations for splendor or demise as it progresses through its life cycle. RC reads from his 2014 article referencing "exobiology" and the Snake Bros recall their interview with Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe - wondering if life is prevalent across the universe, and whether or not plagues/pandemics are due to cosmic activity. Then R...
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 26
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Randall's back-drop sparks discussion of meteor showers and the progression of a disintegrating comet to provide the material for multiple impacts. We have learned critical lessons from Shoemaker-Levy 9, the KT boundary impact event, Tunguska, and nuclear detonations. He gets back into the work of Ted Bunch et al that compares impact markers from these events with the evidence for the YDIH. La...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 25
https://RandallCarlson.com/links https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex Randall opens with an extended "Randallogue" about the need for generalist scientists to cross-pollenate between disciplines and adjust the focus to the "Big Picture" of human and Earth history, to which the Younger Dryas Boundary is a back-drop. He describes how thoroughly an expanding ice sheet would pulverize everything across a continent, and reminds us that the floods from melting ice she...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 24
