[meteorite-list] Re: Does a Giant Crater Lie Beneach the Antarctic Ice?
From: Paul <bristolia_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jun 7 00:07:12 2006 Message-ID: <20060606170813.60690.qmail_at_web36215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> On June 4, 2006, Ron Baalke quoted ?http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060529/full/060529-11.html Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice? Signs of an ancient impact could help to explain a mass extinction. by Mark Peplow, nature.com,June 2, 2006" In part, the article stated: ?An impact of that size should also have melted and twisted nearby rock. Yet rocks in the Transantarctic Mountains of the same age show no evidence of the collision, says Jane Francis, a geologist also at the University of Leeds. "That sequence has been worked on before, and no one has found evidence to support a massive impact like this," she says.? This is an excellent point as there are complete stratigraphic sections across the Permian-Triassic boundary exposed in the Transantarctic Mountains and undisputed impact ejecta and other evidence of a nearby impact of such a size is completely lacking. The reports of shocked quartz from these outcrops have been retracted and the reports of helium- filled fullerenes, meteorite fragments, and other impact- related debris are highly disputed. A full description of the Permian-Triassic boundary and a discussion of the impact ejecta reported from it can be found in: Collinson, J. W., Hammer, W. R., Askin, R. A., and Elliot, D. E., 2006, Permian-Triassic boundary in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin. vol. 118, no. 5, pp. 747?763. doi: 10.1130/B25739.1 http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1130%2FB25739.1 Yours, Paul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Received on Tue 06 Jun 2006 01:08:13 PM PDT |
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