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Re: saudi arabia crater
mfranco schrieb:
> SAUDI ARABIA CRATER
>
> I have just met a retired french oil prospector that made reference to
> a crater about 40 to 80 km in the East of TABROUK. He was there in
> the 50’s. He thinks it is a cosmic crater, could be one km wide. Does
> anyone has info about it.
Bonjour Michel, Hello List!
I haven't found "Tabrouk" in my database but, instead, a place called
"Tabuk" in the Western part of the Arabian Peninsula. And there is an
entry for this place in my database:
AL-MADAFI
Saudi Arabia
28° 40' N / 37° 11' E
Diameter: 6 km
Arabian Peninsula: Known and Suspected Impact Structures, J.F. McHone
and R.S. Dietz. Dept.Geol., AZ State Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287-1604 USA: A
m u l t i r i n g crater situated in sublevel Paleozoic shales and
sandstones of the Tabuk sedimentary basin (A.A. Al-Laboun, 1988,
Geol.Soc.Am.Bull. 100, 362-373; A.A. Al-Laboun, 1986, Am.
Assoc.Petro.Geol.Mem. 40, 373-394) and proposed as impact structure by
remote sensors (J.B.Garvin and H.W.Blodget, 1986, Meteoritics 21,
366-367; R.Grieve et al., 1988, LPI Tech.Rpt. 88-03, Lunar and
Planet.Inst., 89 pp./abs. in Meteoritics 23-3, 1988, p. 289).
Météoritiquement / Best wishes,
Bernd
P.S.: BTW, Michel Franco and his wife Françoise should be well-known to
those among us subscribing to Joel Schiff's M! Magazine:
=> FRANCO M. and FRANCO F. (1998) A Saharan Experience (M!, Nov 98, Vol.
4, No.4, pp. 8-13)
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