| 1997 August |
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Slava Gusiakov meets Ted Bryant at the IAPSO GA Assembly in
Melbourne, Australia. Ted invites Slava in Wollongong for a short
field trip over the New South Wales coast. |
| 1997 | - Ted Bryant in his 1997 paper (Bryant et al.,1997) first directly linked the "chevrons" (coastal parabolic sand mounds) to tsunami action. |
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| 1998 | - William Topping contacts Rick Firestone about impact evidence, metallic spherules and radioactivity at the Gainey Paleoindian site. |
| 1999 | - Mike Baillie publishes his book
"Exodus to Arthur" |
| 2000 | - Dallas Abbott starts working on submarine impact craters with Sally Reynolds (now Davies.) |
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| 2001 March |
- Richard Firestone publishes Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Time, Mammoth Trumpet 16, (2001), pp.1-5. Paper describes Gainey impact evidence, evidence for near Earth supernovae in the late Pleistocene, and relationship between the impact and the Carolina Bays. |
| 2001 June |
- Ted Bryant publishes his book:
"Tsunami Underrated Hazard" (First Edition) through Cambridge University Press. |
| 2001 July | - Gainey sediment and Midwest chert analyzed at Budapest Reactor. Enrichment in 40K discovered. |
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| 2003 | - Jon Hagstrum reads Bryant's book, recommends to Dallas. Dallas reads book, emails Ted to praise book. Dallas and Ted correspond. Dallas finds Mahuika crater candidate for Ted Bryant's NSW mega-tsunami event. |
| 2003 Summer | - Andrew Matzen works on Mahuika ejecta in dredge samples-finds apparent impact spherules. |
| 2003 | - Kelletat and Scheffers paper on chevrons published. |
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| 2004 February | - Dallas, Ted, Paul Krusic, Steve Pekar, and Mohi Kumar fly to New Zealand and participate in the field trip to the Stewart Island organized by the field party to study a possible tsunami impact from Mahuika crater. |
| 2004 Summer | - Mohi Kumar finds some spherules are microfossil casts of glauconite-does find one that looks like a tektite (but still has a glauconitic composition). |
| 2004 December |
- Ted and Slava participate at the ICSU
Conference on Comet/Asteroid Hazards in Canaries and met there
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