Investigating New World Volcanism at the Time of Christ’s Death
A recent article in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies reported that ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctica yield evidence broadly consistent with the 3 Nephi 8 account of cataclysmic New World events—presumably including a violent volcanic eruption—at the time of Christ’s death (Benjamin...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2023
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol23/iss6/4 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/insights/article/1310/viewcontent/04_Investigating_New_World_1_.pdf |
| Summary: | A recent article in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies reported that ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctica yield evidence broadly consistent with the 3 Nephi 8 account of cataclysmic New World events—presumably including a violent volcanic eruption—at the time of Christ’s death (Benjamin R. Jordan, “Volcanic Destruction in the Book of Mormon: Possible Evidence from Ice Cores,” JBMS 12/1 [2003]: 78–87). What other methods might yield corroborating evidence ofsuch an eruption? Two possibilities are the analysis of tree rings and sea and lake sediments. |
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