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Details Relating to the Bering Barrier Theory

70. Red Circle Image Abundant Food, Yellow Circle Image Warm Climate. This theory places the mammoth’s extinction at the peak of the last Ice Age when northern Siberia and Alaska had a colder climate and even less vegetation. During the dark, winter months, food and drinking water would not have been available inside the Arctic Circle, and yet mammoths were well fed. Many animal and plant species buried there live only in temperate climates today.

71. Yellow Circle Image Yedomas and Loess.  Soils washed down on top of ice would show stratification and some sorting of particles by size. Loess consists of unstratified particles. In yedomas, ice and loess are mixed. Besides, yedomas contain too much carbon.

72. Yellow Circle Image Multi-Continental, Red Circle Image -150°F, Yellow Circle Image Vertical Compression. The Bering barrier theory does not explain why these peculiar events occurred over such wide areas on three continents, the rapid drop in temperature to -150°F, or the vertical compression found in Dima and Berezovka.

73. Yellow Circle Image Rock Ice.  This theory might explain Type 2 ice near mammoths, but it does not explain rock ice (Type 3 ice).

74. Red Circle Image Frozen Muck.  If a gigantic snow storm buried many mammoths, why are almost all carcasses encased in frozen muck? Where does so much muck come from, and why are forests buried under muck?

75. Yellow Circle Image Suffocation.  Large animals caught in a sudden snow storm would die of starvation and exposure, not suffocation.

76. Yellow Circle Image Dirty Lungs, Red Circle Image Peppered Tusks.  Sudden snowfalls would remove dust from the air and bury other dirt particles under a blanket of snow. How then did silt, clay, and gravel enter Dima’s digestive and respiratory tracts, and how did “shrapnel” become embedded in hard tusks?

77. Yellow Circle Image Large Animals.  Sudden snow storms would preferentially entomb and freeze smaller animals, because they have less internal heat per unit surface area.

78. Yellow Circle Image Other/Winds.  Prevailing winds at the Bering Strait blow to the east. Therefore, storms from the Pacific should dump snow primarily on Alaska, not Siberia. However, 90% of all known frozen mammoths and all known frozen rhinoceroses are in Siberia.

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