When The Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of A World Cataclysm 11,500 Years Ago

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WHEN THE EARTH

NEARLY DIED
Compelling Evidence of a World Cataclysm
11,500 years ago

D. S. ALLAN & J.B. DELAIR

GATEWAY BOOKS, BATH


CONTENTS

Table of Illustrations vii Part Three:


Acknowledgements ix THE ENDURING MEMORY
Introduction X 1. Traditions and Legends 149
2. Conflagration 151
Part One: 3. Flood 152
A LOST BEGINNING 4. Celestial Disorder 153
1. The age of the Earth 3 5. Terrestrial Chaos 155
2. Debris of a Broken World 5 6. Darkness 159
3. Enigmas in Stone 9 7. Hail and fire 160
4. World Ages - World Suns 12 8. Ice-bound 160
5. A Displaced Axis? 14 9. The traditions assessed 161
6. The Paradox 17
7. Perspectives - a Question of Scale 18 Part Four
8. The Birth of the Glacial Theory 21 COSMIC CONFLICT
9. Upheaval 25 1. An 11,500 years old Trail 169
10. Collapse 31 2. An Unknown Assailant 174
11. Shatter 35 3. Earth Structure 175
12. An Icy Chimera 38 4. Geomagnetism 180
13. Inescapable Evidence 44 5. Reversed Polarity 182
14. Turmoil Unleashed 56 6. The Thermal Factor 185
15. Evidence from the Arctic 60 7. Instability 189
16. An Interim Summary 65 8. Pole Shift 191
9. Crustal slippage 193
Part Two: 10. The Solar System 195
PREMATURE EXTINCTION 11. The Mavericks 198
1. The Testimony of Biology 83 12. Signposts to a Cosmic Battle 204
2. A Lost Euro-American Flora 84 13. The Candidates 207
3. The Saga in the Atlantic 87 14. Phaeton - an Exception to the Rule 211
4. A Sunken Southern Continent? 89 15. The Mesopotamian Connection 214
5. The Buried Forests of North 16. War in Heaven 218
America 91 17. Phaeton's Wrath 225
6. Dislocated Faunas: the Atlantic 18 Phaeton's significance 231
Basin 95
7. Dislocated Faunas: Eurasia, Oceaniai Part Five
and the Southern Hemisphere 99 ANATOMY OF A DISASTER
8. A Vanished Prehistoric Ocean 103 1. The Antediluvian World 241
9. Mediterranean Graveyards 105 2. Confrontation 250
10. Subterranean Charnelhouses 111 3. Collapsed Sky 256
11. Illusory Faunas 119 4. Earth Fracture 262
12. Abnormal Burials 121 5. Fire-storm 269
13. Incompatible Bedfellows 130 6. Hurricane 276
14. A Revised Geological 7. Bombardment 281
Chronology? 135 8. Hell on Earth 289
vi W H E N THE EARTH NEARLY D I E D

9. Iron bound 294 3. An Uncertain Future 330


10. The Rains of Death 297 4. The Stone Age arrives 333
11. The'Water Mountain' 301 5. A New Beginning 339
12. The Torrent from Heaven 303 Appendix A: Refrigerated Mammoths 343
13. Deluge 304 Appendix B: Dating of finds from the
14. Scour 308 catastrophe period 345
15. The 'Wood Hills' of the North 309 Appendix C: Remnants of the Celestial
16. Refrigeration 313 Battle? 351
Appendix D: List of Bibliographic
Part Six contractions 356
PHAETON'S LEGACY
1. Aftermath 327 Glossary 359
2. The Survivors 328 Index 361

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