Ettinger Journals The Great Deluge: Fact or Fiction? Making Sense of and Bringing Together All the Reasonable Scientific Hypotheses and Legends of Many Cultures Douglas B. Ettinger Written: 10/20/2016 Published: 5/1/2017 I. Contents I. Contents.............................................................................................................................................. 1 II. Figures, Charts, Listings and Maps: ..................................................................................................... 4 III. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 6 IV. Early Pre-Deluge Flooding ............................................................................................................... 6 V. Postulated Global Sea and Ice Inventories 20,000 Years Ago to the Present ...................................... 8 VI. End of Younger Dryas Period – the Defining Moment .................................................................. 16 A. Effect of Increased Solar Winds .................................................................................................... 16 B. High Energy Plasma Discharge from a Close Encounter ................................................................ 17 C. Magnetic Fields Interact................................................................................................................ 17 D. Earth’s Geoid is Changed .............................................................................................................. 20 E. Polar Ice Sheets Displaced from the Polar Spin Axis ..................................................................... 23 F. Sliding of Antarctica Ice Sheet and Sudden Rise in Sea Level ........................................................ 25 G. Holocene Mass Extinction Event ................................................................................................... 31 H. Astroblemes of the North Polar Region ........................................................................................ 32 VII. Answers to the Controversies and Technical Objections of the Deluge Proposal ......................... 33 A. Celestial Intruder........................................................................................................................... 33 1. The Captured Proto-Planet, Saturn ........................................................................................... 33 2. The Phaeton Hypothesis ........................................................................................................... 34 3. Orbiting Brown Dwarf Star System ........................................................................................... 34 4. Competing Ideas ....................................................................................................................... 35 B. Crust and Mantle Displacement .................................................................................................... 35 1. Earth’s Crust and Mantle Become Strongly Magnetized ........................................................... 36 2. Convincing Indications for Displaced Mantle ............................................................................ 37 C. Younger Dryas Event Occurs Over 1400 Years .............................................................................. 40 1. Arctic Ocean Freshwater Flux.................................................................................................... 40 2. Dust and CO2-laden Atmosphere from Super-volcanoes .......................................................... 40 3. Large Error in Radiocarbon Dating for 12,900 Years Ago .......................................................... 41 D. Antarctica’s Dome C Ice Core Dating, According to Researchers, is 800,000 Years Old ................ 46 VIII. Conditions Causing East Antarctica’s Ice Sheet to Slide into the Sea ............................................ 50 IX. More Evidence for the South Polar Region’s History .................................................................... 52 Page 1 Copyright © 2017 Douglas B. Ettinger. All rights reserved. Revised 5/1/2017 X. The Hydroplate Hypothesis ............................................................................................................... 56 A. Walt Brown’s book, In the Beginning ............................................................................................ 57 1. Different Ideas and Opinions .................................................................................................... 59 2. Hydroplates Support the Earth’s Metamorphosis Hypothesis .................................................. 60 3. The Subterranean Supercritical Water (SCW) ........................................................................... 61 B. Sudden Death of Megafauna ........................................................................................................ 62 1. Geographical Extent .................................................................................................................. 63 2. Analysis of Rock Ice ................................................................................................................... 64 3. Evidence verses Theories for Frozen Mammoths...................................................................... 65 C. Siberian Climate and Geology ....................................................................................................... 67 1. Why Did Siberia Become Cold So Quickly? ................................................................................ 67 2. Yedomas.................................................................................................................................... 67 3. Loess Soils ................................................................................................................................. 68 4. The Push and Pull of Magnetic Force of an Overhead Celestial Body ....................................... 68 XI. Compendium of Data Supporting the Great Deluge ..................................................................... 70 A. The Cosmic Catastrophe 11,500 Years BP ..................................................................................... 70 B. The Causes and Types of So Much Calamity ................................................................................. 70 1. The Antediluvian World ............................................................................................................ 73 2. The Confrontation ..................................................................................................................... 73 3. Collapsed or Fallen Sky .............................................................................................................. 74 4. Earth Fractures .......................................................................................................................... 75 5. Firestorms ................................................................................................................................. 75 6. Hurricanes ................................................................................................................................. 75 7. Bombardment ........................................................................................................................... 76 8. Iron Bound Atmosphere ............................................................................................................ 78 9. The Rains of Death .................................................................................................................... 78 10. The Water Mountain ............................................................................................................. 79 11. The Torrent from Heaven ...................................................................................................... 80 12. The Deluge ............................................................................................................................ 81 13. Wood Hills of the North ........................................................................................................ 82 14. Refrigeration ......................................................................................................................... 83 Page 2 Copyright © 2017 Douglas B. Ettinger. All rights reserved. Revised 5/1/2017 C. Establishment of Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary ....................................................................... 83 XII. Electricity in Space ........................................................................................................................ 85 A. Birkeland Currents and Electric Circuits in Space .......................................................................... 85 B. Dilemma of Charge Separation in Space ....................................................................................... 86 C. Currents Between Celestial Bodies ............................................................................................... 86 D. Maintaining the Stability of Orbits ................................................................................................ 89 E. Induced Magnetic Fields and Planetary Dipoles............................................................................ 90 F. The Strange Saturn Polar Configuration .......................................................................................