https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYMPh6z86Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuet3t9geXo
The first of the above is a bit of a video about the effects of volcanic activity in relation to an impact event and resulting earthquakes ... it's a few seconds shy of four minutes.
The second one ... well ... that one is, to me at least, enlightening ... or maybe I should say it's one of those O_O things. This one is almost an hour in length, and worth the watch just for the visuals, at least for me, that help make the PHI part of our Story Line 'real'.
While the documentary goes back to the dinosaur days, sixty-six million years or so ago, the sequence it covers applies as well to the time 12,800 years ago when 'Something Happened' in North America, perhaps on a 'smaller' scale but the sequence would have been the same.
It might also provide a hint about what the 'much smaller' impact event in the 530s/540s (the other half of our Story Line) could have brought (to a lesser but still significant degree) to our 'more recent' Characters.
Finding out about that put an unexpected twist into our Story Line(s), yep it surely did. Truth be told, it still kind of freaks me out a little.
I write FICTION, not 'real' stuff, but from the get-go reality has kinda stuck its nose in where I didn't particularly want it to be. At first I welcomed the 'validation', but quite frankly I think it's getting a bit out of control here. If the myths and legends of our 'Dimensions' and 'Realms' and such turn out to be 'real' as well I might have to have a heart attack or something.
Aside from possibly the size of the impact, the main difference between the two ELEs, as I see it, was the impact site.
The one that doomed the dinosaurs apparently hit in shallow water near Mexico, striking at an angle pointing north, maybe a bit northwest. The one 12,800 years ago that took out the big mammals and pretty much everything else on North America (again) apparently whomped into the glacial ice up north. That may have 'cushioned' the blow a little, but it surely made for some horrendous flooding, an 'inland or overland tsunami', so to speak. In addition to the already existing waters going into 300 foot high tsunami mode, throw in one hell of a lot of abrupt icemelt.
I've only just found references to some of this stuff, but had already included it in our story line because it made sense to me.
A whomp anywhere on Earth is liable to have a ripple effect, above and below. Fire, flood, and a rather thick and dimly-lit atmosphere on the above side of the equation. Equal and opposite ... below would show up in earthquakes and pressure on volcanic sites.
So there's the Hat Trick ... a hockey term for a triple whammy ... Earth, water, air ... body, mind, spirit ... all facing massive challenges ...
There are times I have to wonder if I'm really writing 'fiction' ... when what I put down in words I later find to have been 'real'.
Sometimes, though, like now - it comes in right handy. I can 'see' for myself, kind of, what it must have been like back when 'Something Happened' so very long ago. Replace in your mind while you watch, the dinosaurs with North America's large mammals including humans, and the effects on the rest of the world ... you'll see what I mean.
O_O
They're called Extinction Level Events ... ELE ...
I want to add a PS here:
Both the National Bird of the United States and our (apparently soon-to-be) National Animal/Mammal - the Bald Eagle and the Bison - were both around for that last big ELE - and somehow survived.
In much more recent years, both were on the verge of extinction (again) and both were 'brought back' from that verge by the collective will of the American People.
That we as a people, once we recognized what we had done, were doing, did what we had to do to correct ourselves ... something about that is reassuring, gives me hope.
As it happens, I live where I can take a local drive and see both eagle and bison pretty much any time I want. I like that, yes I do.
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