Southern Beech

This gallery contains 46 photos.

The Southern Beech supplies the segue for a series of Southern Hemisphere surprises.

The Orion Fly-By

This gallery contains 25 photos.

The iconography associated with the Orion constellation is [quite literally] an open book but it’s pictorial narrative depends upon the pages being correctly sequenced.

Gunnar Goes North

This gallery contains 22 photos.

Metal detectors unearth pots of gold and the occasional can of worms.

Ravenna Revealed: Curious Clues

This gallery contains 62 photos.

The mosaics of San Giovanni Evangelista provide some very curious clues.

Ravenna Revealed

This gallery contains 22 photos.

Serendipity serves up some surprises.

Three Flavours of 700 Year Old Fudge

This gallery contains 18 photos.

The last 2,000 years have been punctuated by three catastrophic horizons that have spawned three different versions of history.

Dennis Rawlins: Olbers’ Magic Square of Sky

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Heinrich Olbers is best remembered for discovering Pallas and Vesta.

The Dodwell Dead End

This gallery contains 37 photos.

The Aleppo Test provides some painfully penetrating perspectives.

Alaskan Muck: Sol Invictus

This gallery contains 33 photos.

Buckle-up for a bumpy ride managing your cognitive dissonance as the Alaskan Muck series ends with a bang as the Solar Parallax and Sol Invictus fall into place.

Alaskan Muck: Prime Suspects

This gallery contains 41 photos.

In the blame game the prime suspects are usually eliminated [one-by-one] from the investigation until a neatly packaged single actor scenario is revealed such as “Miss Scarlett” in the “Conservatory” with the “Dagger”.

Alaskan Muck: The Road To Aleppo

This gallery contains 17 photos.

It’s unlikely travellers on the Road to Damascus will convert to catastrophism or challenge the chronology but travellers on the Road to Aleppo have an opportunity to observe the pieces of the puzzle falling into place.

Alaskan Muck: Alaskan Ash

This gallery contains 29 photos.

Alaska has a lot of volcanoes.

Alaskan Muck: Windy Dome Ice Core

This gallery contains 15 photos.

The ice in Franz Josef Land [also] only dates back to the Heinsohn Horizon.

Alaskan Muck: The Canning River Region

This gallery contains 44 photos.

In 1919 Ernest de Koven Leffingwell dated Alaskan Ice by dating Ice Wedges. The elegant simplicity of his stunning scientific achievement highlights just how far the Earth Sciences have retreated from rationality, reason and reality in the last 100 years.

Alaskan Muck: Anaximander’s Cake

This gallery contains 32 photos.

It’s a delicious irony to discover Domestic Science reveals more about the inner workings of our planet than the medieval mindset of the self-proclaimed Earth Sciences.

Alaskan Muck: When Then Was

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Recalibrating the Alaskan muck produces some familiar dates!

Hecker Horizon: Konrad von Megenberg

This gallery contains 22 photos.

The Black Death story succumbs to shaking, suffocation and sand in Germany.

Hecker Horizon: Ho Ho Ho History

This gallery contains 32 photos.

Tracing the ancestry of Father Christmas involves some black-face Morris Dancers, William the Conqueror, Julius Caesar, the reign of Jam and some New Year’s Day continuity problems.

Fiery Trigons: Fire Birds

This gallery contains 13 photos.

There is one abiding mystery associated with Johannes Kepler’s Fiery Trigons.

Fiery Trigons: 3rd Millennium Prognosis

This gallery contains 22 photos.

Esoteric astrology and modern astronomy are combined to create a long range weather forecast.

Fiery Trigons: 1st Millennium Diagnosis

This gallery contains 28 photos.

Can Johannes Kepler’s esoteric astrology provide 1st millennium insights?

Fiery Trigons: Great Mutation Cycle

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Kepler’s chart collects another curious climate cycle coincidence.

Fiery Trigons: Great Conjunctions

This gallery contains 23 photos.

Could Kepler’s chart contain the key to climate cycles?

Korean Horizons

This gallery contains 15 photos.

The good news about the Korean Annals is that they appear to contain unadulterated data.

Hecker Horizon: Chasing The Dragon

This gallery contains 14 photos.

The Double Gleissberg Cycle of 155 ± 11 years is a novel historical yardstick.

Hecker Horizon: Enter The Dragon

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Sometimes spreadsheets supply several shocks.

Hecker Horizon: Eclipse Canon

This gallery contains 20 photos.

The Hecker Horizon narrative suggests the Earth likes to rock and roll and that gradualism is more akin to domestic science than hard science.

Hecker Horizon: Triple Conjunction

This gallery contains 6 photos.

It’s amazing what you find down the back of the sofa when you rummage through the dustier corners of the academic archives.

Hecker Horizon: The Ten Calamities

This gallery contains 19 photos.

Probably the greatest challenge confronting independent historians is comprehending a narrative that’s been butchered by the clergy, filleted by court historians, and minced with anodyne waffle by gradualist academics.

The Hecker Horizon: Coincidental Catastrophe

This gallery contains 20 photos.

One of the bigger challenges presented by the Hecker Horizon is trying to comprehend the dramatic rise and fall in the temperature proxies during the 14th century.

The Hecker Horizon: Cometary Coincidences

This gallery contains 30 photos.

Did Comet Halley create the Hecker Horizon or was it merely a coincidental visitor?

The Hecker Horizon

This gallery contains 20 photos.

Gradualist academics have unwittingly documented [in some detail] a catastrophic event that left an indelible mark – the Hecker Horizon – upon the Earth’s surface during the 14th century CE.

Spinning Southern Africa

This gallery contains 13 photos.

The gradualist assumptions underpinning the Earth Sciences come into sharp focus when the geomagnetic history of Southern Africa is taken for a spin.

Getting to Grips with Greenland

This gallery contains 25 photos.

One of the murkier mysteries in the land of maths and models is why the ice in Iceland is 1,100 years old whilst in neighbouring Greenland the ice is said to be 1,000,000 years old.