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At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/dust-deposition-in-the-aral-se... ... Tall Bloke's Talkshop continues to raise some very interesting issues, going to subjects other blogs do not venture, or avoid. In this

At www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6100 there is a forum debate on the 1859 Carrington super-flare that caused a magnetic storm with aurora visible all over the world, even

At SIS we are aware of the Ussello Horizon because of Han Kloosterman who has written and given talks that include mention of Ussello (in

A sea mount north of New Zealand, on what is known as the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone, underwent an amazing episode of rapid growth - in

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2012/layer-by-layer-the-upp... ... a study of ancient stratigraphy in the caves of Mas D'Azil in France has revealed a flood layer - associated with the

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/solar-wind-stripping-atmospher... there is a post on a chance alignment of planets during a passing gust of the solar wind that has allowed scientists to

For an overview of this important breaking news go to Bishop Hill (Andrew Montford) as he has written a 10 page erudite article that is

Gary Gilligan has put together a little video of this phenomenon, the solar wind slamming into the magnetosphere of the Earth - go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGQeOac5lo

The Irish Examiner of May 9th, at www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/6000-year-old-settlement-poses-tsunami-mys... ... is a report on a shell midden in Co Clare (mentioned a couple of weeks ago)

At http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe... ... in 1859 Richard Carrington spotted a peculiar sun spot and drew and plotted some intensely bright patches that he was flash through

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508094358.htm ... how Europe was repopulated is a bit of DNA analysis from the University of Huddersfield archaeo-genetics department and a paper they published

Dennis Cox at 'A Catastrophe of Comets' - http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/a-core-project-to-watch/ is all about the hypothetical Younger Dryas boundary event - in this instance, in Mexico and

Cold Fusion was a feature of the talk by Anthony Haynes at the SIS Spring Meeting in Luton on May 5th. Thunderbolts are advertising the

Mention this place and one is immediately reminded of Eric Von Daniken, if one is old enough of course, and ideas of gods in spaceships,

Steve McIntyre has been off-colour as well as concentrating on business issues and all has been quiet - but today his web site is alight

At http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladage.htm ... Mark Milligan tells us the why and wherefore in an easy to understand style. Relative Dating is the easy part as it

Some interesting pieces on the time lag between cool water in the Pacific, with an origin in the Southern Ocean, and its appearance in the

It seems blonde hair is not confined to Scandinavia and Europe as up to ten per cent of Melanesians, who are somewhat black in skin

Now, there is some interesting speculation here, at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/dinosaurs-liquid-stone-and-radio... ... a three pronged assault. EM Smith, as one might do, was watching the History Channel

At www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573 is a post on problems encountered with C14 dating in the early Holocene and Palaeolithic periods, including a redating of the 'Red Lady