What Sculpted the Earth’s Surface?
Platinum Group Anomalies
Most, if not all, large craters in North America are said to be the remains of asteroid impacts. In fact, it was an asteroid impact that is thought by consensus geologists to be the event that wiped-out the dinosaurs, although that idea is no longer as hard and true as it once was.
Archaeologists find platinum, sometimes associated with asteroids or comets, at these Clovis excavation sites. Credit: K. Cantner, AGI.
Where did the heavy elements on Earth come from?
According to an article in the science journal Nature, Platinum Group Element (PGE) anomalies are found in sedimentary deposits all over North America. No one is sure where the additional heavy elements came from, but there are several ideas proposed: 1) comet or meteorite “storms”; 2) debris from collisions in space; 3) volcanoes; 4) mantle plumes, etc. The time of the mostly platinum “enrichment” is thought to be the Younger Dryas Period between 12,900 and 11,600 years ago. Some of the elements are platinum, osmium, gold, ruthenium and copper.
Otherwise known as the Younger Dryas Cooling Event, it is when the Northern Hemisphere monsoon declined. How that period, called an Ice Age, began and ended is a mystery, although it is often trucked-out as an example of massive and rapid climate change. One of the reasons for the warming at the end of the Younger Dryas is thought to be the impact from a massive comet or a huge number of meteors.
There are many large craters in North America, and most of them look like they come from a similar time period. The Weaubleau-Osceola structure; the Decaturville and Crooked Creek, Missouri formations; along with the the Flynn Creek and Wells Creek, Tennessee craters might belong to an anomalous chain of craters stretching across the United States called the “38th parallel anomaly”. Most of them exhibit unusual features, such as flat floors, steep walls, and lightning-like patterns of trenches and gullies that extend from their centers. Although not in North America, the Kondyor Massif is a perfect illustration of the point.
Geologists speculate that tremendous shockwaves from the collisions caused earthquakes and dense, pulverized rock fallout all over the world. Modern theories about a post-war “nuclear winter are relevant to the dimming of sunlight and significant cooling trends from atmospheric dust. The questions no one is asking, however, is: “What if there was no rock?”
In an a previous Picture of the Day, Sudbury Basin in Canada was described. It is a crater more than 63 kilometers long, 31 kilometers wide, and 15 kilometers deep; the second largest crater on Earth. Ejecta from Sudbury was found more than 800 kilometers away near Lake Superior. The area around Sudbury is shattered into multi-megaton blocks that were pushed away and piled up along the crater rim. Some of the largest fragments were thrown over 100 kilometers in all directions. Gneiss deposits were fused into a glass-like compound that covered the floor of the crater and splashed up and over the crater rim. The molten glass inundated several hundred square kilometers of the surrounding terrain with a thick layer capping chaotic breccias. Platinum family minerals are found throughout the region, including sperrylite, froodite, michenerite and sudburyite. Some records indicate that 1600 million tons of nickel, copper, platinum and lead were extracted from Sudbury over the last 100 years.
There are so many anomalous formations in North America that it is impossible to count them all. Even the Great Lakes possess characteristics that could point to a electrical foundation: the gigantic bowl of hardened limestone in which they rest, for instance. In a gradual curve north of the Great Lakes are Lake Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods, Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake, and many other smaller bodies of water. Near the largest of them are gold mines, lead mines, radium and uranium mines, along with mines producing platinum, silver and palladium. Unusual concentrations of heavy metals could mean that transmutation of local elements might have occurred because of the intensity of the electrical discharges. That idea has been suggested in these pages as the cause for hematite blueberries on Mars. Electric arcs transmuted silicon into iron. That same phenomenon could have created some of the strange conglomerations of minerals seen on Earth.
In an Electric Universe, asteroids are not a primary cause for anomalies on Earth. Instead, electric arc discharges are suggested as the sculptor of Earth terrain. Where those arcs came from cannot be determined at this late date. Were they from charged celestial bodies encroaching into the electric fields of Earth? Was it a plasma cloud from outside the Solar System? Was it a solar flare that charged-up Earth’s ionosphere? Those questions, whose answers can only be guessed at today, await further forensic details.
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