Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: THE SEARCH
1. The Search for Clues
2. “Bullets” in the Dirt
3. Mammoth under the Black Mat
4. Hunting Mammoths
5. Bright Yellow Bones
6. To Clovis from Czechoslovakia
7. The Horse and the Clovis Spear
8. The Mystery of the Drumlins
9. Out on a Limb in Carolina
10. The Mystery of the Carolina Bays
PART TWO: THE MAIN EVENT
11. What Really Happened?
PART THREE: THE EVIDENCE
12. Scientists and
Storytellers
13. The Ominous “Guest Stars”
14. Explosions in the Sky
15. Giant Bubbles in Space
16. Radiation from the Heavens
17. The Carolina Bay Craters
18. The Martian Connection
19. The Main Craters
20. Bays on the High Plains
21. Streaks across the Plains
22. Earth, the Radiation Detector
23. Supernova 41,000 BP
24. Solar System Impact
25. Chemistry of the Comet
26. Crater below Lake Michigan
27. Moment of Impact
28. Possible Canadian Impact Craters
29. Impacts on Other Continents
30. Fires across the Land
31. Fast-Moving Ice and Water
32. The Waters Cover the Land
33. Endless Waves
34. Diamonds from the Sky
35. Wrapping it Up
Appendix A. Find Your Own Stardust
Appendix B. Chemistry of the Comet
Appendix C. Lakes with Firestorm Charcoal
Appendix D. Key Clovis-era Markers
Bibliography
Index
Richard Firestone holds a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry and has been part of the Isotopes Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1979. Allen West, Ph.D., was the owner and CEO of an international scientific consulting company. Simon Warwick-Smith worked as both a field exploration geologist and mining geologist in Australia and now heads Warwick Associates, a book consulting and publicity firm. The authors live in California.
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