Scientific Analysis

Quotes from Cyclostratigraphy, by Lloyd Pye

Stratigraphy is the science of reading geological strata, which are ribbon-like layers of rock that were at one time sand, soil, or volcanic outflow. Sand or soil was washed into place by long extinct rivers, or settled to the bottom of long extinct seas or lakes. Lava flows appear much quicker and are usually much thicker. As layer after layer piled atop existing ones, pressure fused the sand and soil into rock, while lava became rock upon cooling. All layers exhibit the original materials that comprised them. Look at virtually any road cut in a mountain or hillock where a highway or interstate goes through and you will see varying strata. You can't miss them. They are ubiquitous throughout the world.

Strata can reveal many things. When was a particular layer deposited? A few thousand years ago? Several million? A billion? Of what was it composed? Limestone? Granite? Simple stuff. But complex data is also available. What was the magnetic alignment of the Earth when a strata was deposited? Was magnetic north where it is today? Pointing to the equator? Or to where Zanzibar is now? Strata are the telltales of geologic history. They can provide views into the past that are often remarkable and sometimes astonishing.

One of the lesser known but highly important aspects of stratigraphy is that it provides an unambiguous record of global catastrophes. Shifts of the magnetic poles are only one of a range of events chronicled in stone. Earthquakes of great antiquity can be read and dated. Volcanic eruptions. Meteorite impacts. Colossal (though not necessarily Biblical) floods. Ice ages recorded from beginning to end. But it can also reveal much subtler changes, things like the worldwide shifting of seasonal patterns over vast expanses of time.

Mountains rise and fall. Rivers change course. Flood plains shrink or expand. Glaciers wax and wane. All leave scars on the Earth that end up in the geologic record. But what causes the seasons to change? Better yet, what causes Ice Ages? What causes the many fluctuations recorded within each Ice Age? Is there a pattern to any of it? Can there be a recognizable cycle in a river's seasonal flooding, or Earth's cataclysmic Ice Ages? Yes. ...

Comparison of astronomical calculations and cyclostratigraphic depositions reveals a great deal of resonance, but also some dissonance. For example, with Precession there is clear disparity. The astronomical count is that one Precession cycle occurs every 25,920 years. Despite such a daunting length of time, the ancient Sumerians somehow (some would say miraculously) first calculated it and divided it into twelve equal segments of 2,160 years--the length of each "age" of the Zodiac (another Sumerian "first").

Cyclostratigraphy, on the other hand, finds a precessional value of between 21,000 and 22,000 years, give or take, because reading strata is much less precise than astronomical calculations. However, their validity cannot be ignored simply because they do not jibe with the astronomical calculations. Furthermore, astronomy can only account for the cause of four of the known effects on Earth's orbit. Cyclostratigraphy can account for four more, and it is these four "unknowns" that are the crux of our consideration here. ...

All of the figures given above, both known and unknown, come from the new Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, Garland Publishing, 2000, pp. 196-201. As Roger Cunningham was reading through the section of the book dealing with these matters, something caused him to put on his thinking cap and, being a number cruncher at heart, he decided to play around with what he had read. It wasn't long before one very important number literally leaped off the calculator at him: 3600. ...

The Sumerians called the rogue planet "Nibiru," and its orbit they claimed to be a long clockwise ellipse (compared to the nearly circular, counterclockwise orbits of the other planets), like the orbit of a comet. (If you doubt that any people as "primitive" as the Sumerians are purported to be could possibly know anything significant about the heavens, be advised that they knew Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto existed beyond their vision, which we didn't know until telescopes revealed them. Even more astonishing, they knew that when Uranus and Neptune were viewed from space they looked like "blue-green watery twins," which we didn't know until Voyager in the late 1980's.)

The Sumerians further claimed that Nibiru had an orbital period of_.you guessed it-3600 years! ...