Kosmographia

https://RandallCarlson.com      https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson      https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    Randall lists many of the sites he's shown and Brad rattles off several more that we've skipped, noting that we've just "scratched the surface" of revealing the ubiquitous megaflood features across North America. So we jump over a few more to be covered later and zone in on the western "B...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links    https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    We make multiple stops around the Southern Appalachians before heading to the desert southwest, en route to an extended look at the Bonneville Flood over the next few episodes, on our way to the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington State. Cumberland Falls in Kentucky, Noccalula Falls...

RC reviews quotes by the geologists studying the Megaflood features throughout the Appalachians who struggle to grasp the scale of events and forces responsible for the ubiquitous relict features that are found. While noting the evolution of their conceptual framework, he pulls back and overviews the history of the birthing of the academic discipline of Geology, and its battles between the gradual...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    Kosmographia Ep059 The Randall Carlson Podcast with Ben from UnchartedX, George of the Cosmic Tusk, Brothers of the Serpent – Kyle and Russ, and GeocosmicREX admin Bradley, from 1/11/21. We get an accelerated review from the leader of the sole tour group that was visiting the awe-inspir...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex   RC goes through a series of papers, starting in 1960, outlining the progression of thinking about the cause of massive and numerous blockfields and sediment fans throughout the southern Appalachian Mountains, from the gradualist perspective of "periglacial" effects to a more catastrophic...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex   The first half of the show veers in an esoteric direction after seriousness turns into levity, when a trail is picked up that takes us into symbolism and ciphers, the Tarot and Temperance, Kabbala and the Hebrew alphabet, cycles of destruction and Freemasonry. After that whirlwind of min...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    Our first "swap-cast" with the guys who brought it all together! We recall how the relationships and events initiated back in 2014, and reminisce about the great people that have gotten involved to grow this community of historical curiosity. The Contact at the Cabin tours in southweste...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    RC wants to show people that this evidence is everywhere around them, as we converge once again on Central New York State and the Finger Lakes / Lake Ontario region to explore the many glacio-fluvial features, many possibly the result of another proposed impact that created the Rocheste...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    After covering recent fireball and dinosaur news, we get reoriented with the Finger Lakes (New York) region's topography and erosion features, while relating the views of early natural philosopher James Hall – who recognized geomorphology that must have resulted from regional floods, an...

https://RandallCarlson.com/links     https://youtube.com/TheRandallCarlson   https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex    Brad expresses his gratefulness for rock 'n roll, leading to stories of first concerts and festival devolution, and another review by RC of his experience of scale invariance over the Minnesota River within the Ice Age River Warren channel. We then get back into the formation of drumlin...

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 Yuc...

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 Tuzi...

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...

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 tim...

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 deta...

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 geomor...

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...

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, i...

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 Sp...

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...

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 fro...

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...

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 ad...

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 acco...

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 f...