Intriguing article and information. Personally, I have become convinced that the mammoths were flash frozen at the onset of Noah's deluge. If, as is postulated, the earth fauted down what are now the mid-oceanic trenches and huge plumes and geysers of water were ejected high into the stratosphere... upon reaching the cryosphere they would have frozen to hundreds of degrees below the freezing point of water, and caused catastrophic blizzards that would have rapidly entombed the animals. But then how did the ice survive the ensuing flooding and volcanism??? Probably by being quickly buried in ash.
My theory would be substantiated by drilling below the yedoma permafrost and examining the underlying strata. If it is mostly sediments, that would be puzzling. But if it were igneous or dolomites, that is what I would expect.
Intriguing article and information. Personally, I have become convinced that the mammoths were flash frozen at the onset of Noah's deluge. If, as is postulated, the earth fauted down what are now the mid-oceanic trenches and huge plumes and geysers of water were ejected high into the stratosphere... upon reaching the cryosphere they would have frozen to hundreds of degrees below the freezing point of water, and caused catastrophic blizzards that would have rapidly entombed the animals. But then how did the ice survive the ensuing flooding and volcanism??? Probably by being quickly buried in ash.
My theory would be substantiated by drilling below the yedoma permafrost and examining the underlying strata. If it is mostly sediments, that would be puzzling. But if it were igneous or dolomites, that is what I would expect.