Middlesboro Impact Structure was "Re-2: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?"

From: Paul <lenticulina1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:58 2004
Message-ID: <20030921160516.48553.qmail_at_web21411.mail.yahoo.com>

In Re-2: [meteorite-list] Kentucky?
Bernard wrote:

>>Lots of limestone from a geology standpoint...
>>also my good friend John Curchin gave me a
>>wonderful shattercone that came from Kentucky.
>>I forget what the name of the impact structure
>>that is there Middlesburg or Middlesboro maybe?

>Yes, it's Middlesboro - it has a diameter of
>about 6 km with a central uplift and shattercones.

Some references are:

Dietz, Robert S., 1966, Shatter cones at the
Middlesboro structure, Kentucky. Meteoritics.
vol. 3, no. 1, pp.27-29.

Donofrio, Richard R., 1998, North American
Impact Structures Hold Giant Oil Fields.
Oil and Gas Journal. vol. 96, no. 19,
pp. 69-70, 72, 74-76, 78, 80, 83
(May 11, 1998)

http://www.edge.ou.edu/news/Donofrio.PDF

Englund, Kenneth J., and Roen, K.J., 1963,
Origin of the Middlesboro Basin, Kentucky,
U. S. Professional Paper no. 450E, pp.E20-E22,
United States Geological survey, Reston,
Virgina.

Englund, K. J., 1964 Geology of the Middlesboro
south quadrangle, Tennessee-Kentucky-Virginia.
Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-301, scale 1:24,000,
United States Geological survey, Reston,
Virgina.

Englund, K. J., Roen, K. J., and DeLaney, A.O.,
1964 Geology of the Middlesboro north quadrangle,
Kentucky. Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-300,
scale 1:24,000, United States Geological survey,
Reston, Virgina.

Greb, Stephen F., 1998, Impact of an astrobleme
on coal mining in part of the Eastern Kentucky
coal field. American Association of Petroleum
Geologists Bulletin. vol. 82, no. 9, p. 1767.

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/coal/greb2.html#d
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/coal/eastanal.htm

Grieve, R. A. F., 1982, The record of impact on
Earth: Implications for a major Cretaceous/Tertiary
impact event. Geological Society of America,
Special Paper 190, pp. 25-37.

Milam, Keith A., 1998, Mapping, modeling and
geomorphology of the Middlesboro impact structure;
Middlesboro, Kentucky. Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 30,
no. 4, p. 51

Milam, Keith A., 2002, Shocked Conglomerates
from the Middlesboro Impact Structure. Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs.
vol. 34, no. ?, p. ?? (North-Central Section
(36th) and Southeastern Section (51st), GSA
Joint Annual Meeting (April 3-5, 2002)

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NC/finalprogram/abstract_32216.htm

Milam, Keith A., and Kuehn, Kenneth, W., 1999,
Middlesboro, KY; further evidence for an impact
origin. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs. vol. 31, no. 7, p. 124

Steinemann, Christopher F., 1980, A gravity
study of the Middlesboro cryptoexplosive
structure. Unpublished M.S. thesis, University
of Kentucky : Lexington, KY,58 pp.

Web Pages

1.Earth Impact database - Middlesboro
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/middlesboro.htm

2. Middlesboro
http://thunder.pa.uky.edu/Ast191/impact.htm

3. List of 198 impact structures of the World
http://www.netppl.fi/~jarmom/geo/imp/impacts.htm

Other possible, but unproved, impact structures
are the Jeptha Knob and Versailles structures and
the subsurface Muldraugh dome.

1. The Impact Craters of Kentucky
http://thunder.pa.uky.edu/Ast191/impact.htm

2. Structural Geology by Robert C. McDowell form
U.S. Geological survey Professional Paper 1151-H at:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1151h/structure.html

Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA



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