To: Win Smith who wrote (182215 ) 2/21/2006 5:08:52 AM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to Win, my link was to show the lovely slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro which would be ideal for snowboarding during a big freeze and on checking it, the link did indeed show that, though you needed to scroll down to see the picture. Kirschvink's hypothesis was first presented in 1989 to a think-tank called the Proterozoic Paleobiology Research Group (PPRG) organized by Bill Schopf at the University of California Los Angeles. It was published in 1992 as an unrefereed, seven-paragraph-long, article buried in a 1348-page book. The article is a geological classic but fell short of what was needed to convince a skeptical audience of a radical idea. Initially and for several years afterwards, it was openly supported by only two other geologists, Cees Klein at the University of New Mexico (USA) and Nic Beukes at the Rand Afrikaans University in South Africa. Research activity ramped up (see Bibliography) after a 1998 paper in the journal Science by a group from Harvard University and extensive lecture tours by its lead author Paul Hoffman. >
