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THE IMPACT-FLOOD CONNECTION: DOES IT EXIST?* |
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| Authors: | Alexander Deutsch Christian Koeberl Joel D Blum Bevan M French Billy P Glass Richard Grieve Peter Horn Elmar K Jessberger Gero Kurat Wolf Uwe Reimold Jan Smit Dieter Stöffler Stuart Ross Taylor |
| Institution: | 1. Institut für Planetologie, Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, D-48149 Münster, Germany;2.
**Members of the Coordination Committee for the European Science Foundation Network on ‘Impacts and Evolution of Planet Earth';3. Institut für Geochemie, Universität Wien, Dr-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna, Austria;4. Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA;5. Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA;6. Department of Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA;7. Geological Survey of Canada, 1 Observatory Crescent, Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y3, Canada;8. Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Universität München, D-80333 München, Germany;9. Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 103980, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany;10. Naturhistorisches Museum, P.O. Box 417, A-1014 Vienna, Austria;11. Economic Geology Research Unit, Department of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa;12. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands;13. Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany;14. Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. |
| Abstract: | In a recent article in Terra Nova, Kristan-Tollmann and Tollmann (1994) suggested that the Biblical Flood can be explained by seven fragments of a comet that impacted the ocean at seven locations on Earth at 03.00h (C.E.T.) on 23 September, 9545 yr BP. We demonstrate that all the ‘geological proofs’ that allegedly support their conclusions are not supported by the available data on impact cratering. Their hypothesis is based on insufficient and ambiguous data, selective citation, and incomplete comprehension of previous research. |
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