[meteorite-list] NPA 10-10-1951 PingualuitCrater Deep Mystery

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jan 18 11:24:17 2005
Message-ID: <BAY4-F3F324302E7CC902C28320B38F0_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: Hopewell Herald
City: Hopewell, New Jersey
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 1951
Page: 7 (of 10)

Chubb Crater Deep Mystery
Origin Still Unknown To Science Expedition

CHUBB CRATER, the big scar two miles in diameter mysteriously gouged in the
hard granite of Quebec's sub-Arctic north, has a greatest depth of 1,350
feet.
     Thus the depth of the lake-filled wonder as well as its diameter is
more than twice that of Canyon Diablo Crater in Arizona. Cut in
comparatively soft sandstone and limestone, the Canyon Diablo cup is 575
feet deep and four-fifths of a mile in diameter. It held clear title as the
world's largest known crater of meteoritic origin prior to the recent
discovery of Chubb Crater.

Meteor Fragments Sought

     Data on the depths of Chubb Crater, not previously plumbed by man, were
sent by air to Washington by Dr. V. Ben Meen, Toronto geologist and leader
of the joint National Geographic Society-Toronto Royal Ontario museum
expedition, which took the field in the Crate area late in July. Meen's
soundings showed the Crater's lake to be 850 feet at its deepest, making it
one of Canada's deepest lakes. The rocky, sloping rim rises as much as 500
feet above the lake level in the northeast sector.
     Still a mystery, however, is now the unique crater originated.
Scientists of the expedition are continuing to concentrate efforts in the
hunt for metal-bearing meteorite fragments that would constitute adequate
geological proof of meteoritic origin. Signs of volcanism (volcanic
formation) are absent, and Dr. Meen is still convinced that a meteor from
space blasted the deep hole 30 to 160 centuries ago, pushing up its high
rim, and scattering granite rocks for miles around the barren peninsula
between Hudson and Ungava Bays.

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Mark Bostick
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