[meteorite-list] chixculub survivability

From: marsroxx_at_plixtel.com <marsroxx_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:49 2004
Message-ID: <000701c3ab93$f745e100$0400a8c0_at_default>

Hi Bill and List,

I beleive Lake Murray was found in a gravel bed and it is over 110 million
years old.

Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "william anderson" <castlewh1_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 5:46 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] chixculub survivability


> Hi Dave,, regarding your post to Mike F., I have to
> agree with Mike. In my opinion the material has no
> chance to survive after all this time, being what it
> is. As a mining engineer and geologist I've spent a
> lifetime mining gold from tertiary gravels. At 30
> million years old, the only things in the old channels
> are the gold,, silica sand and gravel, and mud,,,,
> huge volumes of mud. Well, it would be mud if water
> was mixed with it. It represents everything else that
> used to exist as rock type material. Even the slate
> bedrock is decomposed. This is in an environment
> locked and buried away from erosion, air and motion.
> If you can casually pick up material from the surface
> as was represented by the so called met collector, the
> weathering activity in such a horizon would be such as
> to make it impossible to put those millions of years
> of age on something that is weathering prone. Just my
> opinion, but it is borne of decades of observation.
>
> Nice day to you and the list,,, Bill Anderson
>
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Received on Sat 15 Nov 2003 11:17:28 AM PST