Grew up in Minnesota dad was a geologist. He talked to me about all of this. Back in the 70s. Ive been to nearly every place he spoke about. Gram and randal are 100% correct. We are , were. also avid scuba divers. The under water Boulder fields of lake are just as informative.
Randall is one hell of a communicator. I second his motion that his work has contributed to the spreading of information and interest in geology, the mega floods and the younger dryas impact hypothesis. I also love his work on helping to interpret the symbols used in esoteric art.
Hi Randall. I live in Thunder Bay. The amount of small lakes and waterways in this region is staggering. I suspected they formed after a meteor impact that left holes like shrapnel from the main impact. But I thought it Hudson Bay was the impact point not Lake Nipigon. This is so interesting. Thank you for your research into this fascinating geological area.
Omg... You people see meteorite craters everywhere. 😂 And FYI no, this lake isn't a crater. 🙄 You people seem to think Randall is the 1st person to look at the lake.
I’m here in northern Michigan, and I believe Cosmic Tusk has research on the Carolina Bays being formed from extruded material (likely ice, as it left no traceable material) from an impact to the Saginaw Bay of Michigan area. Common trajectory based on the Bays ellipses. Pretty wild.
Randall Carlson with reason, rational, and logic combined with grandiose descriptive beauty explaining and making clear the hypothesis of a younger dryas cosmic impact on the glacial ice sheet in the lake Nipigon region of Canada just north of lake Superior of the Great Lakes of Michigan.
You absolutely, had a part in getting the concept of Younger Dryas catastrophe, out there. But not a small one. Your determination and concise interpretation of the facts has been the glue that holds and shapes the model of that time. And you are still doing that, as new information comes to light. That is all you Randall; yes others were there to shine light but you were the only person pulling everything together. Now there is a huge team, still growing and still working it out.
Great video. Really interesting info. There were definitely impacts coinciding with the end of the last ice age. I could listen to you talk about this all day Mr Carlson
It Lake Nipigon proves out to be an ellipse as part of a conical section, what I see is something flaming emanating from the mouth of the constellation Draco, especially from more southern viewpoints. There are lots of dragon myths out there. Chilling, no pun intended. Thanks for bringing this class to see on youtube.
I grew up in the Hudson Valley NY area. When i was a child in school, we were taught that the hudson river was carved by a giant flood when the ice dam in lake Ontario broke. For some reason, even as a child, i had a hard time believing that story. It just never seemed like it was enough water to carve those giant cliffs you can see along the hudson river when crossing the George Washington Bridge, and the Tappan Zee Bridge. Its crazy to me that they are now saying this water possibly came from the younger dryis flood. It makes a lot more sense when you see the scale of the hudson river cliffs
Excellent presentation Randall! I am Canadian and really enjoyed your look at lake nipigon. The Sudbury nickel nine and lace st Jean in Quebec are also suspected meteor impacts.
Great spiel Randal, appreciate your fortitude digging into and presenting the story. I ran across another presentation of the Greenland comet impact by Antonio Zamora. His story presents the temperature rise due to the comets impacting the ice and winds that followed. Also the global impacts range of after affects occuring 58 million years ago.
Absolutely LOVE your podcasts. I live in the Appalachian Highlands of Southwestern Virginia, one of the most beautiful places you'll find in the USA. Could listen to these podcasts for days
I grew up in French River. Across the road from my aunts home is this a gigantic oblong smooth rock .it looks like it was just dropped there like it fell from the sky we used to play on it when we were kids. It wasn't buried very deep it seemed, is what didn't make sense to me at a young age. I. 55 now, today its becoming more like a raised little forest all overgrowth surrounding it. We used to pull mica off of certain areas of it. Even found round rocks full of amethyst. I looked at this rock on my aunts side I swear I see a giant tree ring if I look at this rock in a certain way.
Add to this the possible impact near Detroit that created the Carolina Bays. The Greenland crater (possibly). And who knows however many more. Perhaps the planet was hit by a string or chain of large comet debris either simultaneously or in quick succession. Btw, I have canoed near Atikokan once and have spent months collectively camping/canoeing in the Boundary Waters since 1995. I have always been amazed at and have tried to imagine the forces that created the insane geology exposed in these areas. I will tell you, the bedrock is lifted, bent, broken, tilted in myriad insane ways. It is often exposed and easy to see. I go back pretty much every year because I just happen to love it. Where I go is not anywhere near as dramatic as the Lake Nipigon area pictures you show here. Incredible, nonetheless.
The Thunder Bay area is also one of the only places on earth with natural prasiolite, which is considered an impact proxy if I'm not mistaken. I've been thinking about this area through this lens since I found Randall's videos, and it certainly looks like a lot of flooding damage has been done here. Huge glacial erratics, and mountains reduced to rubble everywhere.
Being a local to the NW Ontario area. Born in Front Frances, lived in Thunder Bay for years, and did quite a bit of fishing on Lake Nipigon, the Nipigon River as well as dozens of other lakes and rivers, in areas all over NWO.. You're barely scratching the surface of the secrets of that area, its a geological and geographical oddity of a location, from Lake of the Woods, to Thunder Bay, all the way up to James, and Hudsons Bay. There are unique features in the whole of area for geography, from obvious glacial carved lakes, to possible impact craters lakes, to volcanic tuft bedrock and massive volcanic fault zones. The western edge of Superior is also on the edge if the "mid american rift" the crustal anomaly that almost led to the splitting of North America. As far minerals or metals, take your pick, platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, zinc, iron, silver, gold. Its all there. If you are indeed planning to visit the area, 4 days is NOT going to be enough time to explore. What kind of samples would you be looking to get ? Lake bed sediment? Rock or mineral samples ? Personally, if I were you, Id talk to a local prospector, or possibly even the mineral exploration drillers in the area, if you wanna know the lay of the land, and what rocks can be found where, and why.. Get some local perspective.
Yes petemclean. Thanks for the post. I would have already done field recon but my plans got derailed by covid shutdowns. I am looking to visit next summer. I have definitely gotten the impression that the area is geologically and geographically unique, an oddity as you say. Platinum, palladium and nickel are known impact proxies. Macro scale evidence could include shocked quartz if there are accessible silicon based rocks, and shatter cones in carbonate rocks. Talking to local prospectors or drillers is an excellent idea. Lake bed sediments might contain micro scale impact proxies such as nanodiamonds, microspherules, magnetic grains. These would be need to be examined by scanning electron microscope to verify. 100% agree: 4 days is not enough time.
@TheRandallCarlson The Thunder Bay MNR, (Ministry of natural resources) should still have the stored and cataloged core samples from all over that area. As well as copies of any geological surveys, and or prospecting / mining records from the area. If there's an existing lead on already found shocked quartz, or other geological oddities in the rock cores, that could help to prove an impact. That's probably a good place to start looking. There's a good possibility of it being recorded already, just overlooked, or not understood. There are also some assay labs in Thunder Bay that might be able to help with metals analysis of any samples you do take. Lakehead University might be able to handle any micro or macro investigation, if not, I'm pretty sure there is at least one geology lab in Thunder Bay to analyze samples. If Lake Nipigon is indeed that tipping point impact, for the younger dryas. Its most likely that it was a SW - NE trajectory. Ontario is covered in impact craters, forming an almost straight line from SW - NE. The more known craters are a lot more easterly than Lake Nipigon, but who's to say there wasn't a stray.
Lake Mistassini should be included in the analysis. It's a scour channel with other features dappled all along the distance to Nipigon. And the scab lands. The wide area of catastrophic effects tend to make less sense for an impact or even a string of impacts and more for the pole shift (which our poles are "wandering" right now, accelerating too) that scoops water out of the North Atlantic and all through "the glacier region".
I love your work and you definitely got my attention and I was wondering if you heard about the 40 crater holes at the bottom of Lake Michigan plus the Stonehedge structures they found down there too?
The overlook you likely stopped at is ouimet canyon, amazing place to visit and unique flora found there not native to the region. Oh, by the way, one of your earlier slides you had Southern Ontario listed. We are proud Northwestern Ontario residents. If you need info regarding the area, welcome to reach out.
Hi Randall. You can see the massive flood in Lake Tahoe. From Truckee to Reno and you can even see the water line in Reno where the canyon opened up and the lake was 🙏🥰😇
Hey, I tried to get you on my radio show. I’ve done a lot of prospecting through out the Thunder Bay district. There is a lot more stuff to see mineralogy in the area. Magnet mines, gold, copper , silver deposits
Recently we witnessed the impact of a comet on Jupiter. The comet broke into several parts. Is it possable that the Ontario impact is a part of the same body you're looking at?
How great has Google Earth and (especially) the topographical maps been in helping to advance research into this theory? I have been watching your videos for a while now and you have developed an expert ability to recognize these features, which become undeniable (imo) when looking at the topographical features.
Great work as always! Have you ever heard of Pedra do Frade in Brazil? It's a granite monolithic structure with two giant slabs balanced on a cliff. The bottom slab is a sail-like cutting, with a triangular "cheese-like" balanced on top. They both point in the directions the sun rises in different seasons, I really think it is an astroarcheological site.
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Absolutely feasible and I'm with you Randal. The southern Superior spillway at Deluth traces to Grand Rapids Minnesota and is the current beginning source of water in the Mississippi flowing south to the Gulf of Mexico. I stopped at a roadside park on the Misissippi river, off Highway 2 fishing in the mid 90's, just west of Grand Rapids. The "Sleeping Giant" looks like a giant Indian chief in full head dress lying on his back, out in the bay and can be seen from the Trans Canada Highway in many places along the north shore of Superior. Of course the deluge of melt water would spill northwest onto James bay, some would make its way through the chain of great lakes to the St. Lawrence river and would also flow south down the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. Lake sediment analysis can be found in Ontario Geological Survey for the Lake Nipigon/Thunderbay area under ThunderBay mining district, as well as quaternary studies. I'm sure there are many documents found in Manitoba too. Love all your videos Randal! From Lloyd in Central Ontario, Canada.
Most of the impacts are in the northern hemisphere because the Earth is traveling around the galaxy (northward) about 8 times faster than it travels (laterally) around the Sun. For an impact to strike the Southern hemisphere, it would need to be traveling faster than the galaxy is rotating, which is rare.
my suggestion for looking for evidence of an impact is micro metallic spherules that might occur in heavy mineral sands along the meltwater channels. Take some screens and pans to make concentrates to further analyze when back home.
Fascinating! One would have to take into account the timing and conditions at the time of the impacts. What was the season when this rock arrived? Approximately how fast would it have been traveling upon impact? Would there have been a major difference of impact in winter vs summer 12,000 years ago? If in winter time, would a massive winter snow storm have any barring on the meteors ? Colder denser air slowing down the rock, cooling it prior to its impact...? Once on impact hitting a mile high block sheet of ice, the ice water instantly melting, evaporating creating massive rain and snow falls for an extended period, a few months? over a few years? Most impressive and most logical discussion on these subjects I have ever enjoyed. Thank You Sir !
I live in Canada and when we were kids we were taught nothing about the ice age and floods. These events need to be taught and become common knowledge. We're a long way from that.
Personally I and most of the people I socialise with wouldn't know about the younger dryas impact if it wasn't for Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock on joe Rogan the first time together, since then I've been hooked on Randall Carlson's knowledge his logic is flawless
Randall you should look into Northern Québec there is a nice Formation that he would like looks like an impact! Same place where they built the dams where they filled it with water! Looks 😍! I'm sure you will like it!
I can just imagine, a giant meteor shower impacting over the horizon of the 2 mile tall glacier in the northern horizon. The sky lights up as smaller impacts both lead and follow the larger meteors, then it all goes dark again. All of a sudden there is this sound, this rushing white noise like static that just gets louder, and louder, and then the ground starts to vibrate and a massive wall of water approaches upwards of 500 feet tall. It's crazy to know that nature and the cosmos are capable of such utterly destructive power. I imagine the "cold snap" came from the nuclear winter after the impacts. Who knows how many showers there were, but there was obviously 2 major ones that caused 2 extinction events.
Randall you had a huge role in these conversations taking place. It surely connected dots for me. We disagree on some things but for that I am grateful to you. Man that was crazy! I gotta watch again. I'm with my classmate the geology maj. thinking of an asteroid hitting the ice sheet. That's effing bAnAnAs! 🍌🤔💥
Such a phase change of so much water would also result in diluvio rainfall across the world as the atmosphere would be overwhelmed with water vapor. Between that and the spontaneous ocean level rise I can only imagine the horrible biblical times the ancestors would have experienced. Literally, they would have experienced a collective consciousness moment that would have been transferred orally for centuries by priests.
The energy required to melt Antarctica ice cap is 8.19168×10^24 joules, and that is assuming that all of the ice is already 0C. The Chicxulub asteroid released is 1.15 × 10^23 joules, about 1/100th
@@fairhall001 It wasn't a very thorough analysis, I was listening to the talk and was curious, so I did a quick order of magnitude calculation and though someone else might be interested. I probably screwed the numbers up anyway 🤣
@@sdrc92126 The massive latent and specific heat of water means a lot of the heat energy could have been absorbed. Don't mind me, I'm just adding to the story. :)
@@fairhall001 👍Yeah, I was too lazy to do that part I think a 10K rise would be about 1/2 that required to melt, just wanted an idea of relative scales. I've spent 4x the amount of time explaining than i did to do the back of envelope envelope calculation
I think it would be very interesting to put all the actual information we have or best estimates of into a computer simulation and then hit it with various size impactors and just see what comes out the other end of that process. Would we possibly see land forms and features that match what is on the ground? Would we see enough generation of melt water to account for the features we see on the earth now? The extrapolate that into the fresh water surge into the oceans and see what effect it has on the currents. That could then be carried into climate modelling to see if we could reproduce Younger-Drias conditions.
Awesome info Mr Carlson. Its hard to understand how this info isn't more 'main stream'. Though since i started to look into this myself by reading and watching the main stream stuff. Some of those people are changing there minds a little anyway. Hopefully Brian Atwood will offer an interesting conclusion.
I wonder if it has been considered the total volume of melt water could come from 1) melted ice, 2) melted snow and 3) the striking object itself, composed of ice and rock? Add all together, perhaps, produces the volume of needed water?
Would have liked to hear more about the possible relationship between this impact and the formation of the "Carolina Bays" by a bombardment of flying icebergs caused by this impact.
Yes, but we're talking about the impact at 12900 years ago; the Carolina bays are usually taken as part of the 11600 impact. Obviously, some of the CBs could come from 12900, but nobody discusses these.
I'm by Lake Erie in Ontario, there's rocks and stones that have world maps on them, they're compasses, ancient ones, load stone magnetic stones, the moon is the same image so when it wasnt out you could use a stone. I film these on my channel
I have a small stone I found that is K2. I have maybe 200-250 lbs I haven't even looked at yet. I may have one of Mount Kailash, maybe many more. It's so much stuff I found so quickly I burned out and people think I'm nuts because they lack an education. This is in WV, where the King of England told people to leave the natives alone. There are megaliths here, seem to be manufactured. It defies Flint Dibble.
You should look at southern Maine as it has very similar land structures. There is a large bowl shaped lake ‘Sebago’. there are vast areas of boulders and cliffs that were cut into the hills and mountains. I expect it was the result of the same event. I suspect that the area of devastation was significantly larger than that you are proposing here. There are large areas of sand layers easily over 30 feet thick. Most of this is covered in Forrest obscuring the area. Many very large rounded boulders the size of a small home spread about the area. You should look over a much larger area. I suspect the Hudson Bay was the primary impact with the others as secondary. I have suspected this since I was quite young seeing raised topographic maps covering the area of middle Canada.
You know how you found the ripples in the Badlands. Have you ever poured water out of a bucket on a hard pack ground. It leaves shapes exactly like the great lakes are shaped. Showing that where the lakes all meet was the drainage point for that part of the ice sheet. Which means there should be an impactor point or debris within a couple hundred miles north of it.
If the flood carved/dug/scraped down through the earth wouldn't you just dig and take samples for carbon dating in the lowest point of one of the floodsites and then dig until you reach the same "layer" at a nearby location not afflicted by flooding and compare the two depthwise to better figure out when it took place?
Wait, did the younger dryas rapid melting of the ice carve out the great lakes?! Thats insane! Someone needs to use Unreal Engine 5, make a map of north america, and show a comet breaking up and hitting north america and showing all the catastrophic flooding and the ice flying across the continent. showing giant ice bergs carrying stones the size of cruise ships and landing in a wide open plane. I always wondered growing up living in Hamilton, Ontario even, wondering why all these stone boulders are in random locations. It would be nice to see this all happen.
Dependant on the type of astroid or comet, an impact into 1-2 mile thick ice sheet, IMO an explosion on ice, would essentially take on the characteristics of an air burst, or this case a ice burst which would leave little evidence of cosmic materials within the ice burst area, but rather most of any cosmic materials would have exploded outwards, and upwards back up into the atmosphere along with ice, and other earthy materials... landing who knows where? Pluse that whole ice sheet area over the earth would have spred the force of that impact outwards aswell, that whole area could have acted like an ice sheet over a gigantic trampoline, hurling even more materials upwards, after the initial explosion. Add to that ice burst impact area: catastrophic floods, and 12k years of erosion. What type of cosmic materials could you find today?
I would imagine an ice sheet impact would involve a lot of steam with no place to go. The initial fraction of seconds would create compressed steam which would act like a reverberating water hammer. Sending shockwaves through the bed rock. Any cracks would be pathways. Literally turning the bed rock into a pressure cooker.
In following this story from many angles and youtubers, I often get confused the start of the Younger Dryas (12900 years ago) with the end of the Younger Dryas (11600 years ago). So the lake Nipigon seems to had been related to 12900 impact, while the Saginaw bay and Michigan lake are possibly related to 11600 impact. If I'm not mistaken, the ever confusing result is my question, why and how had these impacts happened twice to basically the same place? I understand that a comet on impact course with Earth hits where it hits, and its remnants, which are on the same path remain on its merry way. Now when its similar sized parts come around the Earth 1300 years later, they impact the Earth again from the same angle. That males sense so far. But this case presumes that the Earth had to be turned/positioned towards the comet not only in the same angle, which means not only the same season of the year, but also the very same hour of the day! Does anyone have a logical explanation of such possibility? At the same time, this might even imply that some more parts of the same comet might had come 1300 years prior to the YD, and also 1300 years after it, on the same day, albeit with less destructive result. However such evidence would be brilliant as one of the complementary events and proofs of the hypothesis. Are we sure there was no small impact at 10300 years ago?
@@jasoncie4926 But the Egyptian Scholars told Plato there were several stages when the entire civilization on Earth was wiped out? 4 times was it? I sense an unpleasant recurring theme here
If you use lidar and scan the ice cap wooden you be able to tell where something hit it because it would be thin in an area where it was hit and then thick all around the area because it's melted where the comet hit
Riding down the highway in southwestern Pa looks like we purposely built our entire civilization exactly where the water came through. But I’m nobody lol
Being from the PNW, if the floods happened again not even our dumps would remain. The entire civilization is built in "reclamation lands" according to the department of the interior. Has a lot to do with how they decided the navy could build dykes and form navy bases within the interior so long as it was the equivalent of a "stranded ship", even if it is the size of a base they call it a deck.
@@who-nobody-never luckily the ice caps are gone, probably why it’s says god won’t flood the earth again. I think we should reconsider what Nostradamus was really talking about…
@@aaronstandingbear because 90% of everybody for the last few centuries thinks god got a plan so we’ve abandoned our responsibilities at least we have cell phones
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Same here
Grew up in Minnesota dad was a geologist. He talked to me about all of this. Back in the 70s. Ive been to nearly every place he spoke about. Gram and randal are 100% correct. We are , were. also avid scuba divers. The under water Boulder fields of lake are just as informative.
Randall is one hell of a communicator. I second his motion that his work has contributed to the spreading of information and interest in geology, the mega floods and the younger dryas impact hypothesis. I also love his work on helping to interpret the symbols used in esoteric art.
Hi Randall. I live in Thunder Bay. The amount of small lakes and waterways in this region is staggering. I suspected they formed after a meteor impact that left holes like shrapnel from the main impact. But I thought it Hudson Bay was the impact point not Lake Nipigon. This is so interesting. Thank you for your research into this fascinating geological area.
I am at the exact other side on the shores of Lake Agassiz West of Roseisle Manitoba.
Wonder if there are any minerals an metals often found near impact areas. Haiti is full of Iridium from an impact in the Gulf
I actually believe Hudsons Bay is a meteor impact crater. Too obvious for anything else.
Omg... You people see meteorite craters everywhere. 😂
And FYI no, this lake isn't a crater. 🙄 You people seem to think Randall is the 1st person to look at the lake.
I’m here in northern Michigan, and I believe Cosmic Tusk has research on the Carolina Bays being formed from extruded material (likely ice, as it left no traceable material) from an impact to the Saginaw Bay of Michigan area. Common trajectory based on the Bays ellipses. Pretty wild.
Randall Carlson with reason, rational, and logic combined with grandiose descriptive beauty explaining and making clear the hypothesis of a younger dryas cosmic impact on the glacial ice sheet in the lake Nipigon region of Canada just north of lake Superior of the Great Lakes of Michigan.
You are the man from geometry to ancient catastrophes blows my mind 🫡
Thank you Randle for using an Old School Pointer, that helps tremendously in the video.
Randall, you had more than a small part in getting the younger dryas out there. You ARE the reason it's out there so prevalently now
I was thinking this a couple of months ago. Been a resident of the area my whole life. Another great idea Randall Carlson
Fascinating presentation Randall. Thank you for sharing!
You absolutely, had a part in getting the concept of Younger Dryas catastrophe, out there. But not a small one. Your determination and concise interpretation of the facts has been the glue that holds and shapes the model of that time. And you are still doing that, as new information comes to light. That is all you Randall; yes others were there to shine light but you were the only person pulling everything together. Now there is a huge team, still growing and still working it out.
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It’s very interesting listening to this lecture again after years and recognizing some of the voices in the audience
Great video. Really interesting info. There were definitely impacts coinciding with the end of the last ice age. I could listen to you talk about this all day Mr Carlson
It Lake Nipigon proves out to be an ellipse as part of a conical section, what I see is something flaming emanating from the mouth of the constellation Draco, especially from more southern viewpoints. There are lots of dragon myths out there. Chilling, no pun intended. Thanks for bringing this class to see on youtube.
Seeing the pictures of the canyons and other features, especially once you know what caused them, is unbelievably awesome!!
I grew up in the Hudson Valley NY area. When i was a child in school, we were taught that the hudson river was carved by a giant flood when the ice dam in lake Ontario broke. For some reason, even as a child, i had a hard time believing that story. It just never seemed like it was enough water to carve those giant cliffs you can see along the hudson river when crossing the George Washington Bridge, and the Tappan Zee Bridge. Its crazy to me that they are now saying this water possibly came from the younger dryis flood. It makes a lot more sense when you see the scale of the hudson river cliffs
Yall make ranch dressing there?
Randall, you played an enormous part in helping get this idea out here. And it's a great idea.
Exciting. My family is from Nipigon.
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I have been following this since Graham Handcock first suggested it . Please keep up the good work sir.
So distracted almost forgot to give it a like. Amazing 😮
Right. Im trying to level up in my game and Randal Carlson is Dropping bombs in the background. I love this man.
Wow. Lived in Thunder Bay my whole life- and my parents retired to Nipigon- and this is the first I'm hearing about al this
Excellent presentation Randall! I am Canadian and really enjoyed your look at lake nipigon. The Sudbury nickel nine and lace st Jean in Quebec are also suspected meteor impacts.
Thank you Randall can't wait for the next update
Wish I could be in these classes. This is so awesome!
Great spiel Randal, appreciate your fortitude digging into and presenting the story. I ran across another presentation of the Greenland comet impact by Antonio Zamora. His story presents the temperature rise due to the comets impacting the ice and winds that followed. Also the global impacts range of after affects occuring 58 million years ago.
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Ive sat down with eric and talked with him for about 2 hours. He's probably the most intellectual man I've ever met. Great dude
I’ve canoed on Nipigon a few times. Had no idea it may be an impact crater. Fascinating hypothesis
I grew up in French River. Across the road from my aunts home is this a gigantic oblong smooth rock .it looks like it was just dropped there like it fell from the sky we used to play on it when we were kids. It wasn't buried very deep it seemed, is what didn't make sense to me at a young age. I. 55 now, today its becoming more like a raised little forest all overgrowth surrounding it. We used to pull mica off of certain areas of it. Even found round rocks full of amethyst. I looked at this rock on my aunts side I swear I see a giant tree ring if I look at this rock in a certain way.
Thanks brother 🙏
Add to this the possible impact near Detroit that created the Carolina Bays. The Greenland crater (possibly). And who knows however many more. Perhaps the planet was hit by a string or chain of large comet debris either simultaneously or in quick succession. Btw, I have canoed near Atikokan once and have spent months collectively camping/canoeing in the Boundary Waters since 1995. I have always been amazed at and have tried to imagine the forces that created the insane geology exposed in these areas. I will tell you, the bedrock is lifted, bent, broken, tilted in myriad insane ways. It is often exposed and easy to see. I go back pretty much every year because I just happen to love it. Where I go is not anywhere near as dramatic as the Lake Nipigon area pictures you show here. Incredible, nonetheless.
The Thunder Bay area is also one of the only places on earth with natural prasiolite, which is considered an impact proxy if I'm not mistaken. I've been thinking about this area through this lens since I found Randall's videos, and it certainly looks like a lot of flooding damage has been done here. Huge glacial erratics, and mountains reduced to rubble everywhere.
Watching Graham series on Netflix. Amazing work!
Thank You Randall and Team, for finding and sharing this information clearly/understandably.
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Being a local to the NW Ontario area. Born in Front Frances, lived in Thunder Bay for years, and did quite a bit of fishing on Lake Nipigon, the Nipigon River as well as dozens of other lakes and rivers, in areas all over NWO..
You're barely scratching the surface of the secrets of that area, its a geological and geographical oddity of a location, from Lake of the Woods, to Thunder Bay, all the way up to James, and Hudsons Bay.
There are unique features in the whole of area for geography, from obvious glacial carved lakes, to possible impact craters lakes, to volcanic tuft bedrock and massive volcanic fault zones.
The western edge of Superior is also on the edge if the "mid american rift" the crustal anomaly that almost led to the splitting of North America.
As far minerals or metals, take your pick, platinum, palladium, nickel, copper, zinc, iron, silver, gold. Its all there.
If you are indeed planning to visit the area, 4 days is NOT going to be enough time to explore.
What kind of samples would you be looking to get ?
Lake bed sediment?
Rock or mineral samples ?
Personally, if I were you, Id talk to a local prospector, or possibly even the mineral exploration drillers in the area, if you wanna know the lay of the land, and what rocks can be found where, and why.. Get some local perspective.
Yes petemclean. Thanks for the post. I would have already done field recon but my plans got derailed by covid shutdowns. I am looking to visit next summer. I have definitely gotten the impression that the area is geologically and geographically unique, an oddity as you say. Platinum, palladium and nickel are known impact proxies. Macro scale evidence could include shocked quartz if there are accessible silicon based rocks, and shatter cones in carbonate rocks. Talking to local prospectors or drillers is an excellent idea. Lake bed sediments might contain micro scale impact proxies such as nanodiamonds, microspherules, magnetic grains. These would be need to be examined by scanning electron microscope to verify. 100% agree: 4 days is not enough time.
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The Thunder Bay MNR, (Ministry of natural resources) should still have the stored and cataloged core samples from all over that area.
As well as copies of any geological surveys, and or prospecting / mining records from the area.
If there's an existing lead on already found shocked quartz, or other geological oddities in the rock cores, that could help to prove an impact.
That's probably a good place to start looking.
There's a good possibility of it being recorded already, just overlooked, or not understood.
There are also some assay labs in Thunder Bay that might be able to help with metals analysis of any samples you do take.
Lakehead University might be able to handle any micro or macro investigation, if not, I'm pretty sure there is at least one geology lab in Thunder Bay to analyze samples.
If Lake Nipigon is indeed that tipping point impact, for the younger dryas.
Its most likely that it was a SW - NE trajectory.
Ontario is covered in impact craters, forming an almost straight line from SW - NE. The more known craters are a lot more easterly than Lake Nipigon, but who's to say there wasn't a stray.
Lake Mistassini should be included in the analysis. It's a scour channel with other features dappled all along the distance to Nipigon. And the scab lands. The wide area of catastrophic effects tend to make less sense for an impact or even a string of impacts and more for the pole shift (which our poles are "wandering" right now, accelerating too) that scoops water out of the North Atlantic and all through "the glacier region".
Thank you for the video.
I love your work and you definitely got my attention and I was wondering if you heard about the 40 crater holes at the bottom of Lake Michigan plus the Stonehedge structures they found down there too?
this is insane I only hope others start to see what's going on here. props to sir Carlson
The overlook you likely stopped at is ouimet canyon, amazing place to visit and unique flora found there not native to the region.
Oh, by the way, one of your earlier slides you had Southern Ontario listed. We are proud Northwestern Ontario residents.
If you need info regarding the area, welcome to reach out.
Hi Randall. You can see the massive flood in Lake Tahoe. From Truckee to Reno and you can even see the water line in Reno where the canyon opened up and the lake was 🙏🥰😇
At last for me, you've been hugely influential for getting terms like "younger dryess" and catastrophism into the thought and language.
THANK YOU!
The pictures were great!
thank you so much, you are my entrance into a fantastic part of geo history
I'm in Toledo looking toward Michigan. Miles wide meters hit stretching the crust . My opinion.
Randell I’m from the Tannana Valley in Alaska the only spot there was no ice during the last ice age, we have some things you need to see
Hey, I tried to get you on my radio show. I’ve done a lot of prospecting through out the Thunder Bay district. There is a lot more stuff to see mineralogy in the area. Magnet mines, gold, copper , silver deposits
Aways fascinating!
Recently we witnessed the impact of a comet on Jupiter. The comet broke into several parts. Is it possable that the Ontario impact is a part of the same body you're looking at?
How great has Google Earth and (especially) the topographical maps been in helping to advance research into this theory? I have been watching your videos for a while now and you have developed an expert ability to recognize these features, which become undeniable (imo) when looking at the topographical features.
Montreal river pancake bay. The lake monster pictographs were amazing next time thru I'm staying at least a week. Thx Mr carlson
Grew up in T-Bay. Northwestern Ontario is some pretty rugged country fer sure. Did some fishing in L. Nipigon but mostly L. Superior.
Good times 🇨🇦
Awesome as always. When funds allow, I will join a trip!
Your work is awesome very interesting
Great work as always! Have you ever heard of Pedra do Frade in Brazil? It's a granite monolithic structure with two giant slabs balanced on a cliff.
The bottom slab is a sail-like cutting, with a triangular "cheese-like" balanced on top.
They both point in the directions the sun rises in different seasons, I really think it is an astroarcheological site.
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Absolutely feasible and I'm with you Randal. The southern Superior spillway at Deluth traces to Grand Rapids Minnesota and is the current beginning source of water in the Mississippi flowing south to the Gulf of Mexico. I stopped at a roadside park on the Misissippi river, off Highway 2 fishing in the mid 90's, just west of Grand Rapids. The "Sleeping Giant" looks like a giant Indian chief in full head dress lying on his back, out in the bay and can be seen from the Trans Canada Highway in many places along the north shore of Superior. Of course the deluge of melt water would spill northwest onto James bay, some would make its way through the chain of great lakes to the St. Lawrence river and would also flow south down the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. Lake sediment analysis can be found in Ontario Geological Survey for the Lake Nipigon/Thunderbay area under ThunderBay mining district, as well as quaternary studies. I'm sure there are many documents found in Manitoba too. Love all your videos Randal! From Lloyd in Central Ontario, Canada.
Fascinating, as always!
Most of the impacts are in the northern hemisphere because the Earth is traveling around the galaxy (northward) about 8 times faster than it travels (laterally) around the Sun. For an impact to strike the Southern hemisphere, it would need to be traveling faster than the galaxy is rotating, which is rare.
Wow thats interesting
Having a clip of the video in the beginning is a nice feature
my suggestion for looking for evidence of an impact is micro metallic spherules that might occur in heavy mineral sands along the meltwater channels. Take some screens and pans to make concentrates to further analyze when back home.
Fascinating! One would have to take into account the timing and conditions at the time of the impacts.
What was the season when this rock arrived? Approximately how fast would it have been traveling upon impact?
Would there have been a major difference of impact in winter vs summer 12,000 years ago?
If in winter time, would a massive winter snow storm have any barring on the meteors ? Colder denser air slowing down the rock, cooling it prior to its impact...?
Once on impact hitting a mile high block sheet of ice, the ice water instantly melting, evaporating creating massive rain and snow falls for an extended period, a few months? over a few years? Most impressive and most logical discussion on these subjects I have ever enjoyed. Thank You Sir !
how would spring versus autumn effect thousands of Tunguska level explosions?
The simple answer from my relatively basic understanding of physics is no. Explosions and impacts would not be affected during this astral invasion.
This explains everything. It will be my excuse on why I’m going fishing this morning. Thanks 😂
I live in Canada and when we were kids we were taught nothing about the ice age and floods. These events need to be taught and become common knowledge. We're a long way from that.
I was at this presentation!
Saving up for flights and tickets bro🎉
Personally I and most of the people I socialise with wouldn't know about the younger dryas impact if it wasn't for Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock on joe Rogan the first time together, since then I've been hooked on Randall Carlson's knowledge his logic is flawless
thank you
Why no "I survived the Younger Dryas impact" T-Shirts on your W site?
He's not that old.
Too soon, too soon.
Randall you should look into Northern Québec there is a nice Formation that he would like looks like an impact! Same place where they built the dams where they filled it with water! Looks 😍! I'm sure you will like it!
I can just imagine, a giant meteor shower impacting over the horizon of the 2 mile tall glacier in the northern horizon. The sky lights up as smaller impacts both lead and follow the larger meteors, then it all goes dark again. All of a sudden there is this sound, this rushing white noise like static that just gets louder, and louder, and then the ground starts to vibrate and a massive wall of water approaches upwards of 500 feet tall.
It's crazy to know that nature and the cosmos are capable of such utterly destructive power.
I imagine the "cold snap" came from the nuclear winter after the impacts. Who knows how many showers there were, but there was obviously 2 major ones that caused 2 extinction events.
Randall you had a huge role in these conversations taking place. It surely connected dots for me. We disagree on some things but for that I am grateful to you. Man that was crazy! I gotta watch again. I'm with my classmate the geology maj. thinking of an asteroid hitting the ice sheet. That's effing bAnAnAs! 🍌🤔💥
Such a phase change of so much water would also result in diluvio rainfall across the world as the atmosphere would be overwhelmed with water vapor. Between that and the spontaneous ocean level rise I can only imagine the horrible biblical times the ancestors would have experienced. Literally, they would have experienced a collective consciousness moment that would have been transferred orally for centuries by priests.
The energy required to melt Antarctica ice cap is 8.19168×10^24 joules, and that is assuming that all of the ice is already 0C. The Chicxulub asteroid released is 1.15 × 10^23 joules, about 1/100th
It doesn't need to melt the ice, it just has to remove it's structural integrity to allow gravity and the sun to finish the task.
@@fairhall001 It wasn't a very thorough analysis, I was listening to the talk and was curious, so I did a quick order of magnitude calculation and though someone else might be interested. I probably screwed the numbers up anyway 🤣
A quick order of magnitude calculation? That math hurts my feeble brain 😂😂😂
@@sdrc92126 The massive latent and specific heat of water means a lot of the heat energy could have been absorbed. Don't mind me, I'm just adding to the story. :)
@@fairhall001 👍Yeah, I was too lazy to do that part I think a 10K rise would be about 1/2 that required to melt, just wanted an idea of relative scales. I've spent 4x the amount of time explaining than i did to do the back of envelope envelope calculation
There is a meteor impact site just off the coast of Lake Superior over at Terrace Bay -- the Slate Islands. What are your thoughts on that?
"A small part to play..." said one of only two men on the planet responsible for popularizing the YDIH? You're too humble by half RC 😎
I can drive to nipigon in an hour. Tell me what photos you need!
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I wonder how you could survey for asteroid fragments
Amazing!
I think it would be very interesting to put all the actual information we have or best estimates of into a computer simulation and then hit it with various size impactors and just see what comes out the other end of that process. Would we possibly see land forms and features that match what is on the ground? Would we see enough generation of melt water to account for the features we see on the earth now? The extrapolate that into the fresh water surge into the oceans and see what effect it has on the currents. That could then be carried into climate modelling to see if we could reproduce Younger-Drias conditions.
And massive rainfall from sublimated ice
Awesome info Mr Carlson. Its hard to understand how this info isn't more 'main stream'. Though since i started to look into this myself by reading and watching the main stream stuff. Some of those people are changing there minds a little anyway. Hopefully Brian Atwood will offer an interesting conclusion.
I wonder if it has been considered the total volume of melt water could come from 1) melted ice, 2) melted snow and 3) the striking object itself, composed of ice and rock?
Add all together, perhaps, produces the volume of needed water?
Would have liked to hear more about the possible relationship between this impact and the formation of the "Carolina Bays" by a bombardment of flying icebergs caused by this impact.
There was something about that on Rumble (like, yesterday?) where Randall talked to Carolina Bays expert Chris Cottrell.
Yes, but we're talking about the impact at 12900 years ago; the Carolina bays are usually taken as part of the 11600 impact. Obviously, some of the CBs could come from 12900, but nobody discusses these.
@@Alarix246 but the Carolina Bays may be a lot older. Keep in mind that this talk of Randall's is from 2019.
sensational stuff
I'm by Lake Erie in Ontario, there's rocks and stones that have world maps on them, they're compasses, ancient ones, load stone magnetic stones, the moon is the same image so when it wasnt out you could use a stone. I film these on my channel
Will check out your channel, thanks. I've found a lot of stuff also. Do you know of the late Dr Barry Fell?
I have a small stone I found that is K2. I have maybe 200-250 lbs I haven't even looked at yet. I may have one of Mount Kailash, maybe many more. It's so much stuff I found so quickly I burned out and people think I'm nuts because they lack an education.
This is in WV, where the King of England told people to leave the natives alone.
There are megaliths here, seem to be manufactured. It defies Flint Dibble.
You should look at southern Maine as it has very similar land structures. There is a large bowl shaped lake ‘Sebago’. there are vast areas of boulders and cliffs that were cut into the hills and mountains. I expect it was the result of the same event. I suspect that the area of devastation was significantly larger than that you are proposing here.
There are large areas of sand layers easily over 30 feet thick. Most of this is covered in Forrest obscuring the area. Many very large rounded boulders the size of a small home spread about the area.
You should look over a much larger area. I suspect the Hudson Bay was the primary impact with the others as secondary. I have suspected this since I was quite young seeing raised topographic maps covering the area of middle Canada.
Randal, from what I know of other things, you are "close" with Lake Nipigon. More happened nearby than is imagined.
You know how you found the ripples in the Badlands. Have you ever poured water out of a bucket on a hard pack ground. It leaves shapes exactly like the great lakes are shaped. Showing that where the lakes all meet was the drainage point for that part of the ice sheet. Which means there should be an impactor point or debris within a couple hundred miles north of it.
Concerning the long year,what happens when they are even, winter and summer in both hemispheres at the same time
If the flood carved/dug/scraped down through the earth wouldn't you just dig and take samples for carbon dating in the lowest point of one of the floodsites and then dig until you reach the same "layer" at a nearby location not afflicted by flooding and compare the two depthwise to better figure out when it took place?
Wait, did the younger dryas rapid melting of the ice carve out the great lakes?! Thats insane! Someone needs to use Unreal Engine 5, make a map of north america, and show a comet breaking up and hitting north america and showing all the catastrophic flooding and the ice flying across the continent. showing giant ice bergs carrying stones the size of cruise ships and landing in a wide open plane. I always wondered growing up living in Hamilton, Ontario even, wondering why all these stone boulders are in random locations. It would be nice to see this all happen.
Superior is pre glacial.
Mr Carlson what’s your thoughts on Grand Canyon ?
Can I come with you to collect samples?? That would be awesome!
Dependant on the type of astroid or comet, an impact into 1-2 mile thick ice sheet, IMO an explosion on ice, would essentially take on the characteristics of an air burst, or this case a ice burst which would leave little evidence of cosmic materials within the ice burst area, but rather most of any cosmic materials would have exploded outwards, and upwards back up into the atmosphere along with ice, and other earthy materials... landing who knows where? Pluse that whole ice sheet area over the earth would have spred the force of that impact outwards aswell, that whole area could have acted like an ice sheet over a gigantic trampoline, hurling even more materials upwards, after the initial explosion. Add to that ice burst impact area: catastrophic floods, and 12k years of erosion. What type of cosmic materials could you find today?
I would imagine an ice sheet impact would involve a lot of steam with no place to go. The initial fraction of seconds would create compressed steam which would act like a reverberating water hammer. Sending shockwaves through the bed rock. Any cracks would be pathways. Literally turning the bed rock into a pressure cooker.
@michaelstiller2282 the amount of actual cosmetic material
penetration into the earth, if any. Would greatly depend on it's mass and composition.
How about examining some gravel pits hundreds of miles downstream from the impact site for pieces of the impactor?
In following this story from many angles and youtubers, I often get confused the start of the Younger Dryas (12900 years ago) with the end of the Younger Dryas (11600 years ago). So the lake Nipigon seems to had been related to 12900 impact, while the Saginaw bay and Michigan lake are possibly related to 11600 impact. If I'm not mistaken, the ever confusing result is my question, why and how had these impacts happened twice to basically the same place?
I understand that a comet on impact course with Earth hits where it hits, and its remnants, which are on the same path remain on its merry way. Now when its similar sized parts come around the Earth 1300 years later, they impact the Earth again from the same angle. That males sense so far.
But this case presumes that the Earth had to be turned/positioned towards the comet not only in the same angle, which means not only the same season of the year, but also the very same hour of the day! Does anyone have a logical explanation of such possibility?
At the same time, this might even imply that some more parts of the same comet might had come 1300 years prior to the YD, and also 1300 years after it, on the same day, albeit with less destructive result. However such evidence would be brilliant as one of the complementary events and proofs of the hypothesis. Are we sure there was no small impact at 10300 years ago?
I think everyone does mate it's taken me ages to get my head around it. I can recommend George Howard's Cosmic Tusk website. It's a good read through.
It flooded every year for 300yrs ..
Sounds like we have a strong possibility that the next Dryas impact will hit North America again, Would explain why no megalithic structures
From what I've seen it's more of a massive long meteor stream and just un lucky that it got hit twice
@@jasoncie4926 But the Egyptian Scholars told Plato there were several stages when the entire civilization on Earth was wiped out? 4 times was it?
I sense an unpleasant recurring theme here
If you use lidar and scan the ice cap wooden you be able to tell where something hit it because it would be thin in an area where it was hit and then thick all around the area because it's melted where the comet hit
Riding down the highway in southwestern Pa looks like we purposely built our entire civilization exactly where the water came through. But I’m nobody lol
Being from the PNW, if the floods happened again not even our dumps would remain. The entire civilization is built in "reclamation lands" according to the department of the interior. Has a lot to do with how they decided the navy could build dykes and form navy bases within the interior so long as it was the equivalent of a "stranded ship", even if it is the size of a base they call it a deck.
@@who-nobody-never luckily the ice caps are gone, probably why it’s says god won’t flood the earth again. I think we should reconsider what Nostradamus was really talking about…
@@TheeMaddScienctist Right now it looks like South America is on fire every where according to satelite images.
@@aaronstandingbear because 90% of everybody for the last few centuries thinks god got a plan so we’ve abandoned our responsibilities at least we have cell phones