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Excerpts from "Earth in
Upheaval"
(c) Doubleday 1955
Page 3 - "What could have
caused the Artic Sea and the Pacific Ocean to irrupt and wash away forests
with all their animal population and throw the entire mingled mass in
great heaps scattered all over Alaska, the coast of which is no longer the
Atlantic seaboard from Newfoundland to Florida? Was it not a tectonic
revolution in the earth's crust, that also caused the volcano's to erupt
and to cover the peninsula with ashes?
In various levels of the muck,
stone artifacts were found 'frozen in situ at great depths and in apparent
association' with the Ice Age fauna, which implies that 'men were
contemporary with extinct animals in Alaska.' Worked flints,
characteristically shaped, called Yuma points, were repeatedly found in
the Alaskan muck, one hundred and more feet below the surface. One such
spear point was found there 'between a lion's jaw and a mammoth's tusk.'
Similar weapons were used only a few generations ago by Indians of the
Athapascan tribe, who camped in the upper Tanana Valley. It has also been
suggested that even modern Eskimo points are remarkably Yuma-like, all of
which indicates that the multitudes of torn animals and splintered forests
date from a time not many thousands of years ago.
The Caves of England -Page 15,
In 1823, William Buckland,
professor of geology at the University of Oxford, Published his Reliquiae
diluvianae (Relics of the flood), with the subtitle, Observations on the
organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and
other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge.
Buckland was one of the great authorities on geology in the first half of
the nineteenth century. In a cave in Kirkdale in Yorkshire, eighty feet
above the valley, under a floor covering of stalagmites, he found teeth
and bones of elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, horses, deer, tigers
(teeth of which were larger than those of the largest lion or Bengal
tiger), bears, wolves, hyenas, foxes, hares, rabbits, as well as bones of
ravens, pigeons, larks, snipe and ducks. Many of the animals had died
'before the first set, or milk teeth, had been shed.'
{Truncated} - The idea which long
prevailed, 'was, that they were the remains of elephants imported by the
Roman armies. This is also refuted First by the anatomical fact of their
belonging to extinct species of this genus, second, by their being usually
accompanied by the bones of rhinoceros and hippopotamus, animals that
could never have been attached to Roman armies: thirdly, by their being
found dispersed over Siberia and North America, in equal or even greater
abundance than in those parts of Europe which were subjected to the Roman
power.'
The Aquatic Graveyards - Page
19-20,
In the red sandstone an abundant
aquatic fauna is embedded. The animals are in disturbed positions. At the
period of the past when these formations were composed, 'some terrible
catastrophe involved in sudden destruction the fish of an area at least a
hundred miles from boundary to boundary, perhaps much more. The same
pattern in Orkney as at Comarty is strewed thick with remains, which
exhibit unequivocally the marks of violent death. The figures are
contorted, contracted, curved; the tail in many instances is bent around
to the head; the pines stick out; the fins are spread to the full, as in
fish that die in convulsions. The Pterichthys shows its arms extended at
their stiffest angle, as if prepared for an enemy. The attitudes of all
ichthyolites {any fossil fish} in this platform are attitudes of fear,
anger and pain. The remains, too, appear to have suffered nothing from the
after-attacks of predacious fishes; none such seem to have survived. The
record is one of destruction at once widely spread and total. . .' ~ a
thousand localities disclose the same scenes of destruction.
The Asphalt Pit of La Brea - Page
64,
Beds of petroleum shale (rock of
laminated structure formed by consolidation of clay), ascribed to the
Tertiary Age, having in many places a thickness of about two thousand
feet, extend from Cape Mendocino in northern California to Los Angeles and
beyond, a distance of over four hundred and fifty miles. The asphalt of
Rancho La Brea are an outcrop of this large bituminous formation.
Since 1906 the University of
California has been collecting the fossils of Rancho La Brea, 'a most
remarkable mass of skeletal material.' When found, these fossils were
regarded as representing the fauna of the late Tertiary (Pliocene) or
early Pleistocene (Ice Age). The Pleistocene strata, fifty to one hundred
feet thick, over lie the tertiary formations in which the main oil-bearing
beds are found. The deposit containing the fossils consists of alluvium,
clay, course sand and asphalt. Most spectacular among the animals found at
Rancho La Brea is the Saber-tooth tiger (Smilodon), previously unknown
elsewhere in the new or old world, but found since then, in other places
too. The canine teeth of this animal, over ten inches long, projected from
his mouth like two curved knives. With this weapon the tiger tore the
flesh of his prey.
The animal remains are crowded
together in the asphalt pit in an unbelievable agglomeration. In the first
excavation carried on by the University of California 'a bed of bones was
encountered in which the number of saber-tooth and wolf skulls together
averaged twenty per cubic yard.' No fewer than seven-hundred skulls of
saber-toothed tiger have been recovered.' Among other animals unearthed in
this pit were bison, horses, camel, sloths, mammoths, mastodons, and also
birds including peacocks.
~ To explain the presence of
these bones in the asphalt, the theory was offered that the animals became
entrapped in the tar, sank in it, and were imbedded when the tar hardened.
However the large number of animals that filled this asphalt bed to
overflowing is baffling. Moreover the vast majority of them are
carnivorous, whereas in any fauna the majority of animals would be
herbivorous-otherwise the carnivores would have had no victims for their
daily food-requires explanation.
Agate Spring Quarry - Page 67,
In Sioux county Nebraska, on the
south side of the Niobrara River, in Agate Springs Quarry, is a fossil
bearing deposit up to twenty inches thick. The state of the bones indicate
a long and violent transportation before they reached their final resting
place. 'the fossils are in such remarkable profusion, in places, as to
form a veritable pavement of interlacing bones, very few of which are in
their natural articulation with one another,' says R.S. Lull, director of
the Peabody Museum at Yale, in his book on fossils.'
The profusion of bones in Agate
Springs Quarry may be judged by a single block now in the American Museum
of Natural History in New York, this block contains about a hundred bones
to the square foot. There is no way of explaining an aggregation of
fossils as a natural death retreat of animals of various genera.
The animals found were mammals.
The most numerous was the small twin horned rhinoceros (Diceratherium).
There was another extinct animal (Moropus) with ahead not unlike that of a
horse but with heavy legs and claws like that of a carnivorous animal. And
bones of a giant swine that stood six feet high (Dinohyus hollandi) were
also unearthed.
The Carnegie Museum, which
likewise excavated in Agate Spring Quarry, in a space of 1350 square feet
found 164,000 bones or about 820 skeletons. A mammal skeleton averages 200
bones. This area represents only one-twentieth of the fossil bed in the
quarry, suggesting to Lull that the entire area would yield about 16,400
skeletons of the twin-horned rhinoceros, 500 skeletons of the clawed
horse, and 100 skeletons of the giant swine.
A few miles to the east, in
another quarry were found skeletons of an animal which, because of its
similarity to two extant species, is called a gazelle camel (Stenomylus).
A herd of these animals was destroyed in a disaster. ~ the transportation
was in a violent cataract of water, sand, and gravel, that left marks on
the bones.
Tens of thousands of animals were
carried over an unknown distance, then smashed into a common grave. The
catastrophe was most likely ubiquitous, for these animals-the small
twin-horned rhinoceros, clawed horse, giant swine, and gazelle camel-did
not survive, but became extinct. ~ the very circumstances in which they
are found bespeak a violent death at the hands of the elements, not slow
extinction in a process of evolution.
`In many other place of the world
similar finds have been made in the United States ~ In Switzerland a
conglomerate of bones of animals that belong to different climates and
habitats were found in Kesslerloch near Thayngen: Alpines types are there
in one 'Tiergemiosh' with animals of the steppe and of the forest and
fauna. In Germany a gravel pit at Neukoln (a suburb of Berlin)"
Extinction - Page 226,
In numerous places of the world
the bone content of caves indicates that they served as hide-outs in times
of supreme danger. Lions and tigers, wolves and hyenas, gazelles and hares
shred the refuge and there found their common grave. But not all places
where such assemblages of bones are discovered were sought for refuge. In
many cases the animals were swept from large areas by a tidal wave and
thrown against rocks. And the water rushing through the fissures left
behind the animals with all their bones broken within their torn bodies.
From as far as China, to England and France and the islands of the
Mediterranean, examples of fissures of fissures with bones, splintered and
mingled together, have been presented in the book.
Not only fissures in the rocks
but caverns in the hills may have been filled with bones, though the
caverns might not have been sought for shelter. An irrupting sea or great
lake, lifted from its bed and carrying its own detritus and land debris,
swept heterogeneous herds of animals and carried then to the farthest
reaches and threw over them hills of gravel, rock and earth. Cumberland
cave, described on an earlier page, is one of many examples. {Pg. 60 ~the
bones of Cumberland cavern were 'for the most part much broken, yet show
no sign of being water born. ~ also it happened that animals of northern
regions-wolverine and lemming, the long-tailed shrew, mink, red-squirrel,
muskrat, porcupine, hare and ell-were heaped together with animals
'suggesting warmer climatic conditions'-peccary, crocodilid, and tapir.
Animals that now live on the western coast of America-coyote, badger and
puma like cat-are in this assemblage. ~ 'This is truly a peculiar
assemblage of animals' Extinct animals are found there with extant forms.}
If bones are found rolled, they were mostly carried from afar, and were
from animals that had died long before; if bones are more or less intact,
the chances that the place was a shelter that failed; and if the bones are
splintered, it is highly probably that the animals were smashed by a great
force against rocks or resisting ground.
End of the Excepts.
It would be crazy to try and
transcribe the whole of his works, I did this just to give readers some
hint of what he has to say. Here is
Google on Velikovski.
The themes in Velikovsky's works
have to do with the results of a similar occurrence to that which is
currently being discussed, concerning the possibility of a massive
electro-magnetic Tsunami from outer space that supposedly is headed this
way.
http://godlikeproductions.com:80/
Here's a comment from one reader
to me, and my response to her:
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"Well, you sent it to
me...so I presume that gives me the right to respond.
The last paragraph (to me) says
it all...hoax, yea. Still I'm glad you sent it. I follow both the
'conspiratorial group' and the 'religious fundamentalist group', with
their 'signs' and 'secret' info......
I do, however, agree....energy
waves of awesome proportion are hitting our planet, but why does that
always have to be negative?
Would it not be interesting if
each and every human manifested in one of the eleven dimensions (twelve in
my opinion) believed in what they believed? Whoa, you could have your
'Barebones' and I could have my 'Garden'.
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Yeah Baby!!! YES PLEASE, I would
dearly love the outcome you suggest - because it would be that long
awaited universal card that could trump all the schemes that we've
created: but the odds on are: that if it exists, this is a "positive
force" - a NATURAL positive and cleansing force; One that will rid
this planet of the disease that humanity has become, with all the burdens
that we have placed here and continue to feed with every passing second. .
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I'm working on transcribing a
small bit of Velikovsky - to remind everyone that this kind of event may
have been to this planet before ~ for the skeptics that want so much to
"SAY-it-ISN"T-So! . . . and this exercise truly is a humbling
experience. . . the "proofs' are not absolute in any way - they
consist mostly of some very serious questions raised a long time ago -
long before even the remote idea of such a "Tsunami from outer
space" could even have been dreamt of. Well, at least we won't have
long to wait for an answer as to the validity or the sham of what's
supposedly about to be!
Jim Kirwan
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