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Cataclysm!: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C. Paperback – September 1, 1997

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Follow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth's axis, mass extinctions, upthrusted mountain ranges, rising and shrinking land masses, and gigantic volcanic eruptions and earthquakes--all indicate that a fateful confrontation with a destructive cosmic visitor must have occurred. The abundant geological, biological, and climatological evidence from this dire event calls into question many geological theories and will awaken our memories to our true--and not-so-distant--past.

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"Allan and Delair do a brilliant job in revealing that researchers have barely touched the tip of the iceberg of events that shook the Earth around 9,577 B.C. . . . This book is an essential handbook to our ancient past: a brave multi-disciplinary approach that should be applauded." ― Rand Flem-Ath, coauthor, When the Sky Fell

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ASTRONOMY / GEOLOGY

CATACLYSM!

Cataclysm! presents a breakthrough of enormous proportions--a new understanding of cosmic events in Earth's recent geological past.

Follow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth's axis, mass extinctions, upthrusted mountain ranges, rising and shrinking land masses, and gigantic volcanic eruptions and earthquakes--all indicate that a fateful confrontation with a destructive cosmic visitor must have occurred. The abundant geological, biological, and climatological evidence from this dire event calls into question many geological theories and will awaken our memories to our true--and not-so-distant--past.

“In not only the scholarship of paleontology but the paleontology of scholarship, this is the sort of book which someday we will realize to be--like the record of a great extinction--the marker at the end of one era and the threshold of another. It is monumental work, which no enlightened library of the coming paradigm shift will be without.”
--Douglas Kenyon, Atlantis Rising magazine

“Allan and Delair do a brilliant job in revealing that researchers have barely touched the tip of the iceberg of events that shook the Earth around 9,577 B.C. . . . This book is an essential handbook to our ancient past: a brave multi-disciplinary approach that should be applauded.”
--Rand Flem-Ath, coauthor, When the Sky Fell

D.S. ALLAN, a Cambridge M.A., is a science historian specializing in paleogeography, particularly in the Arctic regions. A science teacher for many years, he is a skilled cartographer and has made a special study of evidence for climatic and landform change in recent geological times. He lives in Basildon, Essex, England. J.B. DELAIR, B.Sc., is an Oxford-based geologist with wide international and commercial field experience. An anthropologist, he has a special interest in animal and plant distribution and in tribal traditions. He is the Museum Curator of Geology at University of Southampton, England.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bear & Company; Original ed. edition (September 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1879181428
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1879181427
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.1 x 9.25 inches

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D. T. Stevenson

Mixed Bag But Thought Provoking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2012

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This rating is misleading because the book is really a combination of a one, two, three, four and five star book.

For starters, do yourself a favor and read parts 3-the end first, then part 2 and finally part 1. Because organizationally the book is a 2-star and the writing in part 1 is hard to understand unless you like reading the encyclopedia. Part 1 is an exhaustive and exhausting history of geological research designed to prove how much the writers know and how bad they are at communicating it. So, unless you are a Ph.D., skip part 1, which I rate as a 1 star, until the end.

Second, the book gets a five star for assembling data that is not well known, even today 15 years after publication. Similar to Sitchin or Drunvalo, the writers do a good job of finding data to support what would otherwise be a very exotic theory of global disaster in the recent past.

However, the book does only a four star job of convincing the reader of the thesis that it all happened very quickly and dramatically because the dates can only be reduced to a span of time that is 4000 years long (from 10,000 years ago to 14,000 years ago). They use the average of the dates to make the argument that it all happened at once. I would have given this aspect of the book an even lower rating if it wasn't for the fact that they do a very good job of showing broad evidence for global episodes that did significant violence to the biosphere, suggesting that something very sudden and cataclysmic occurred.

Finally this book gets a three star for the relevance of the data. While the data is sufficient to support their arguments, they fail to use enough up to data and competing data to make their points stronger. In other words, they cherry pick from the scientific record.

In summary, the book is compelling, as the title suggests, but not completely convincing. I am convinced that the ice age did not happen as predominant theories suggest. So they do a good job of debunking predominant theories. But I am not convinced that Earth history enfolded in the way they suggest. For example a period of extensive volcanic activity can explain a good deal of the evidence. If the writers were lawyers arguing their case, they could easily win a civil case where you only need a "preponderance of the evidence". But the higher standard in criminal cases of "beyond a shadow of a doubt" is too high a standard for this book. Overall "Cataclysm" is an entertaining and educational read.

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Required reading for those interested in Earth's remote history

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2019

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If you are interested in the hypotheses of Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch and Randall Carlson, you will like this book. Hancock accepts the Comet Impact Hypothesis for the end of the Ice Age and the resulting Younger Dryas time period. Robert Schoch supports the idea that the glacial melting was caused by a coronal mass ejection from the sun. Randall Carlson says that they may both be components of one larger event, but continues to say that we probably still have more to learn about this period of history. Those familiar with the works of Zecharia Sitchin know that he believes that the cuneiform tablets of the Sumerians describe the planet Nibiru destroying the planet Tiamat in the early times of the solar system.

Delair and Allan take a somewhat different approach to this event. Delair is an Oxford geologist and Allan a Science Historian. They are both eminently qualified to weigh in on the problem. They interpret the Sumerian description of the demise of Tiamat to be a far more recent event. Rather than the planet Nibiru, they propose that a rogue planet entered the solar system about 11,500 years ago, decimated Tiamat and left the asteroid belt in its place and then went on to a close fly-by with Earth which caused havoc on this planet, causing the events of the Younger Dryas.

To support this claim, they cite a huge amount of evidence, both geological and biological, as well as supporting evidence from traditional descriptions from around the world of a catastrophic time which we know as Noah's flood. The massive amount of hard evidence includes geologically recent crumpling and upheavaling of the lithosphere, as well as vast global coverage of volcanic activity at the same time. The biological evidence they present includes the vast number of species and genera which became extinct at this time as well as the global deposits of oscious brecia which have been discovered. This brecia includes the remains of huge numbers of broken bones of multiple animal - and human - species jumbled together with broken trees, tree limbs with leaves attached, the remains of numerous plant types, and significant amounts of mud, clay, volcanic ash and gravel. In the higher latitudes this much is frozen solid and has been for 11,500 years. In other places it is found dried and packed together in caves and crevices, and in still others, buried meters below current ground level.

Delair and Allan's hypothesis may be the overarching theory that unites Hancock, Schoch and Sitchin, and in the process provides a clearer picture of the end of the Ice Age and the Younger Dryas. It is not without new and shocking components, such as the possibility that glaciers may not have covered North America at all. But for all those who are interested in the question of the truth of what happened on this planet in the remote past, Cataclysm should be required reading.

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glossypig

A good buy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 9, 2019

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The authors have done an amazing job researching and collating all the information in this wonderful book. It has provided answers to a lot of questions I had about early history and pre-history of the Earth.
I did find it slightly hard reading at times, but it was so interesting that I was never bored. At present, I am reading it for the second time, to remind myself of the remarkable happenings of c.11,000 years ago.

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The Boogie Man

Earth- shattering, a true classic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 17, 2013

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Forget everything you learned in school about geography! Allan and Delair prove in their thorough investigation, that the topography of the Earth, as we now know it, was formed a mere 11500 years ago, when the Earth almost died. Obviously, the powers that be, wish to lull you into a false sense of security regarding our place in the cosmos. The truth is that space is not empty, and the Earth is constantly bombarded by material from the rest of the cosmos. You may find this book frightening and disorientating, which is exactly the way our ante- diluvial ancestors felt when the terrible "Phaeton" disaster occurred. This was a cosmic encounter with massive emissions from the Vela exploding super- nova in our region of the galaxy. Phaeton was like a miniature sun which blasted it's way through the solar system, disrupting the magnetic fields of the outer planets and pulling them out of orbit before it's apocalyptical encounter with Earth.

On it's dreadful path, Phaeton captured material from Tiamat the tenth planet, which was exploded, and it's moon Kingu. As Phaeton approached the Earth, this rocky and watery debris bombarded the Earth, producing rains of death and destruction. Phaeton itself, the stellar material, did not actually collide with Earth, but the material it dragged with it, by it's own gravitation did. First the Earth dried up, and the seas boiled. Crops were desiccated and rendered inedible. Hellish firestorms broke out which sucked the oxygen from the land and triggered hurricanes on a scale now barely imaginable. When Phaeton came closer the seas were piled up mountainously, at the poles, and the Earth was pulled of it's rotational axis. As Phaeton set a course for the sun, the seas flooded the continents, which had already been catastrophically deranged, and drowned what was left of life on Earth.

The physical keys which remain as evidence of the Phaeton disaster are the"drift deposits" and "Erratics" found all over the Earth. Traditionally these are viewed by physical geographers as evidence of an "ice age". Allan and Delair reject this notion completely and utterly confute Lyellian "Uniformitarianism". There is no way that these deposits could be forced up mountainsides and deep into caves by the slow age long, action of ice. Apocalyptic diluvial water on the other hand could.

This book would make a good companion volume to Cremo and Thompson's "Forbidden Archeology". Put them together on your bookshelf! Part six of the book deals with the aftermath of the catastrophe, when humans were reduced to savagery and forced to eat meat. This was the beginning of the stone age, when all but a few of the remnants of humanity were able to once again build up a civilization. There is a good photograph of a prehistoric iron chain embedded in sedimentary rock discovered in California during 1952; what was this chain used for? There are other accounts of "anomalies" buried hundreds of feet underground; all evidence of a superior ante- diluvial civilization, wiped from the face of the Earth by this awful catastrophe.

Surprisingly. Allan and Delair avoid the topic of Venus, the next nearest planet to the sun. I believe that Phaeton had a terrible cataclysmic affect on this planet too.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2016

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Great book though they don't give Velikovsky enough credit or put his ideas in context.

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Alpendodel

Well...

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on May 3, 2014

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I think this book should not be seen as "scientific work" but more as thesis of things that surely had happend with explanations to things that COULD have been occured on some way. After all I take this books as a hint to our past and as SUGGESTION what could have leaded to the (surely true!) cataclysm, that evidences we can see spreading all over the world.
Of course an old sumerian (or ancestors of them) could not observe a "fight" between a postulated "Marduk"-Starburst and "Tiamat"-Planet. Nor could they see "flashes" from one to the other, nor could they see the cracking of an imaginary planet "Tiamat". For that they would have had VERY large telescopes. But they had'nt. It could have been some "lore" of their ancestors ok, but thats very pure myth.
All in all an interesting writing with many open questions at the end, but if one take it not TOO serious, it can be a very good book to go thinking about it to make an own choice what could have happend, for the "Deluge-Myth" is surely true.
If you want scientific proofs, DO NOT READ IT. If not, if you just going to find some hints for a possible "truth out there", READ IT. Your choice ;-)
Only two points for "scientific proofs" (too speculative), but one more for making me a lot of "hmmmmmmm"...

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what caused my local geography ?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 21, 2019

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I was always interested in what caused the diverse landscape where I lived. The research in this book helped me to imagine what these parts may have looked like long ago and how they came about to look like what they look like now. After anyone reads this, they'll know why that mountain looks like a giant rock turned on it's side.

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