Thursday, January 29, 2026

Salient ET impacts, volcanic eruptions and climate events

Version one of this post is from memory. I plan to add links and confirm details later.

ET Impacts:

1. The Tunguska event. Russia, June 30, 1908.

2. The meteor strike that destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. Levant, 1650 BCE.

3. The Young Dryas impact. North America, ca. 12,900 years ago in North America.

4. The Southeast Asian ET impact.  Tens of thousand of years ago.

5. The ET impact that killed the dinosaurs. ca. 66 million years ago.

Volcanic eruptions:

1. Mount Tambora. Indonesia. 1815.

2. The eruptions that led to the Justinian plague. ca. 536 CE.

3.  Pompei. Mount Vesuvius. 76 CE. Italy.

4. The volcanic eruptions at the Upper Paleolithic boundary in Europe that probable drove modern human Cro-Magnon replacement of Neanderthals. Europe. ca. 40,000 years ago.

5. The Toba eruptions ca. 75,000 years ago in Indonesia.

6.  Yosemite's last big eruption ca. 630,000 years ago.

Climate events:

1.  The European Little Ice Age. ca. 1300-1850 CE.

2.  The drought in the American SE that ended ancient Puebloan culture. 

3.  The drought that took down the Mayans. A century or two before Y1K.

4.  The horrible year: 536 CE.

5.  The Bronze Age collapse event. ca. 1200 BCE.

6.  The aridity event that preceded Indo-European expansion and led to collapses in civilizations in Europe, the Middle East, West Asia, and India. ca. 4,000 years ago.

7.  The Green Sahara and its end. ca. 15,000 to 5,000 years ago.

8.  The Younger Dryas. ca. 12,900 years ago. Delayed the Neolthic revolution by about 3,000 years.

9.  The Last Glacial Maximum ca. 20,000 years ago.

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