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_Tails Of A Recent Comet: The Role Cometary Jets Play In Crustal
Formation_

_Milton Zysman_
1__ and Frank Wallace2__

1__ 176 Major Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2L3, Canada
2__ Toronto, Canada

Drain away the Earth's oceans and a global pattern of continental and
undersea mountain ridges appears. Adjacent to these ridge systems, are
layers of silt and clay so thick that they fill the gaps between the
ridges, creating extensive plateaus. Ranging across the Earth's higher
latitudes are thousands of tiny replicas of these ridges called eskers
and drumlins. These swarms run up hills and across streams in roughly
parallel discontinuous strands for hundreds of kilometres. Preserved
by encapsulation in the ice and snow of our last ice age, eskers,
drumlins and their related structures will be the major focus of this
paper. We contend that the greater and lesser ridge systems alike,
including the water and sediment that fill them, are cometary debris.
These ridges, which lie directly upon older ridges, are free of
fossils, show no signs of organisation by hydraulic processes and the
cements necessary for their conversion to rock could not be provided
from earthly sources. These ridges can be traced to a stream of "jets"
of disintegrating materials emanating from shifting surfaces on a
comet's nucleus. A band of these jets, captured in planetary orbit,
will deposit its debris in a manner perpendicular to the Earth's
surface - a unique configuration that is consistent with the manner in
which comets discharge in the plane of their orbit. The jet will land
in two distinct phases. Jet particles able to resist planetary
atmosphere (sand, gravel and boulders), will compact and concretize
into their classic ridge pattern. The water and lighter materials,
diverted by winds and post-depositional mobilisation, will flow and
become inter-ridge basins. We contend that the establishment of the
ridge complexes found on Earth are therefore consistent with the
earth's encounter with cometary tails, sections of which get captured
in the Earth's orbit before descending in swarms.
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MILTON ZYSMAN was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1936. He
graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1958 and an
M.B. in 1962. A founding member of the Canadian Society for
Interdisciplinary Studies, Mr Zysman has run an engineering firm in
Toronto for 30 years. In 1990, he published and edited _Catastrophism
2000._
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Presented at the SIS Conference: [1]Natural Catastrophes during Bronze
Age Civilisations.

References

1. file://localhost/www/sat/cambconf.htm