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

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 4 19:42:44 2006
Message-ID: <014701c6879a$663e4c70$ff5de146_at_ATARIENGINE>

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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From: "Gerald Flaherty" <grf2_at_verizon.net>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>; "Meteorite Mailing
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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
Received on Sun 04 Jun 2006 01:47:43 AM PDT