[meteorite-list] Southwest Impact Study photos

From: fcressy <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:35 2004
Message-ID: <001c01c31335$0ab93450$2d333841_at_g10fb>

Mr. Jackson,

I noticed that in your post to Mark Miconi you that you didn't state any
qualifications in geology

It shows.

A detailed geologic map of the different rock units is critical in
determining whether you have an impact feature. You have shown nothing. You
have not even shown the most basic evidence of a crater, that being some
type of circular anomaly. Also, the correct identification of the rocks and
rock units is critical if you are to have any credence. Using the correct
terminology is also imperative. Maybe you can define what you mean by
"lechatelierite" and how you can see this in hand samples? The text on one
photo indicated that you didn't know whether a rock was "fused quartz" or
"calcium carbonate". This can be determined easily. Another photo of your
"cornerstone" sample showed a dark "brecciated sandstone" overlying a light
beige "calcareous sandstone" where the contact occurred at the ground
surface. All that you showed here was desert varnish occurring on the
surface of the exposed rock and dirt and caliche covering the buried portion
of the rock. Most likely, the entire rock was the same lithology.
On your new photo entitled "shattercone?" It's NOT. And in its description
about a quartz nodule turned to "sedimentary" layering via impact, you
stated you've "never seen quartz that looks like this. Wow". Neither has
anyone else. It's an obvious large cobble of metamorphic rock, probably a
gneiss. It has nothing to do with your impact feature. Your "classic shocked
quartz nodules" that are "everywhere you look" look suspiciously like
weathered granitic conglomerate clasts that are full of feldspar and quartz.

In your introduction to the list (4/24/03)you stated that you had observed
nanodiamonds in some of the impact pieces. All I can say about this is that
you have great eyes ;-)

You also stated "I am prospecting full time. Every day. I will make a living
at it because I must." It seems you are using this same philosophy in
determining that you have a crater field. You have decided that you have a
crater so therefore you must have impact breccias, impact melts,
shattercones and all the rest of the features associated with an impact
crater. This is not how the scientific method works. I suggest you take some
basic geology courses or at least enlist the aid of a geologist to help you
identify some basic rock types.

Regards,
Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Miconi
To: Mark Jackson
Cc: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Southwest Impact Study photos


Sorry...I have never been an I/ME/MY type of guy...too much of a team
player, which really doesn't fit my ADHD ridden type AA in your face
personality. Publishing your work will only give others evidence to
discredit you if your wrong. If you are correct...you will only garner an
opening paragraph in someone elses work. Instead of finding someone credible
to work with that is willing to give you proper recognition, you are risking
the destruction of the possble evidence to actually substantiate your claim
by doing the intial work yourself. What if you destroy the evidence needed
to do the proper science? What if no one credible will work the site after
you due to your intial work? Then YOUR work will be all there is and without
the proper credentials you have then only accomplished the same as those
that have photographed the elusive Bigfoot.

Just my opinion though...Good luck and I hope it all works out for you.


Mark M.
Phoenix AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Jackson
To: Mark Miconi
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Southwest Impact Study photos


That will come Mark. After MY work is done. I will not be denied credit for
this discovery as Barringer was. My work will be publicly published before
the world so everyone knows it was my work before the "pros" come in. If it
were you, you would do the same. I have college training in chemistry,
physics and astronomy; enough to do marginally acceptable work. So you all
will wait. I understand this.

Geez


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Received on Mon 05 May 2003 02:35:01 PM PDT