[meteorite-list] Odd Round Rocks Linked To Big Meteorite

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:11 2004
Message-ID: <200304221512.IAA01259_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/04/22/missouri.meteorite.ap/index.html

Odd round rocks linked to big meteorite
Associated Press
April 22, 2003

OSCEOLA, Missouri (AP) -- Geologists
think they might have discovered one of the
largest meteorite craters in the United
States.

Some 350 million years ago, a space boulder
400 meters across entered the Earth's
atmosphere and struck an area near the future
site of Osceola, Weaubleau and Bolivar in the
Missouri, according to researchers.

Southwest Missouri State University
geologist Kevin Evans recently started
looking into the possibility of a meteorite
crater. Now, other researchers have banded
together to dig more deeply into his theory.

A meteorite, researchers say, would explain
how folded-over rock formations and deposits
of rock with shattered quartz ended up in the
Ozarks.

The theory also explains the presence of numerous
round rocks around Osceola. Researchers think the
stones may have formed when liquefied rock flew
into the air and cooled into balls before they
hit the ground.
Received on Tue 22 Apr 2003 11:12:27 AM PDT