[meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer CraterFoundUnderIce

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 4 19:40:23 2006
Message-ID: <001401c687d7$55306070$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

YIPEES!! 250my is an infinitesmally small geologic frame.
I prefer contemplating the theoritcal lunar origin.
similarly catastrophic but at a much SAFER time lapse.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>
To: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2_at_verizon.net>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer
CraterFoundUnderIce


> Hi,
>
> Actually, I like it too. Except that I favor
> the idea of the shock waves from the impact
> focusing on the far side of the planet and causing
> mantle plumes to break through and basalt to
> flood there. The Moon shows faint evidence of this
> happening there, but Mercury has a huge area
> of "chaotic terrain" directly opposite the biggest
> impact, the Caloris Basin.
> These really big impacts are so far out of
> our experience that it's really difficult to imagine,
> even using mathematical models, what could
> result from them.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2_at_verizon.net>
> To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite Mailing
> List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Big Bang in Antarctica - Killer
> CraterFoundUnderIce
>
>
>> by punching through the Earth's crust, thus tying
>> three opposing theories (impacts, basalt floods, and poisonous
>> gases) together as one unified theory,
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sterling K. Webb"
>> I've always had this idea tucked in the back of my head. Kinda like a
>> "perforated" coastline post Pangea. But it's too scarey to dwell on if
>> there's ANY truth in it!!!
>> Jerry Flaherty
>
>
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