[meteorite-list] New or maybe old QUESTION??????

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 23:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <442927.82309.qm_at_web33101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Yes, Sweden is well known for it's "fossil meteorites"
dug up in coal mines.
You can google them but they are clearly hundreds of
millions of years old, and you can still see clear
chondules in pieces.
Michael Farmer
--- Pete Shugar <pshugar at clearwire.net> wrote:

> List,
> Maybe this has been asked and answered (sounds like
> a lawer thing) and maybe
> not.
> Since I am relatively new to collecting and
> certainly not an Expert in any
> area of meteorite study (with the exception of
> magnetisum (from the sky
> magnetic VS made a magnet by processes here on
> earth).
> Here's my question:
> A geologist digs in an area that he thinks there
> will be the likelyhood of
> finding a fossil. Maybe he gets lucky and maybe
> finds bunches of them.
> Has anyone ever found a meteorite buried deep in a
> layer that is thousands
> or even millions of years old?
> Years ago--long before I became an obsessed, crazed,
> meteorite addict,
> while teaching a series on earthquakes, I had found
> a video of a scientist
> standing with one foot on the Pacific plate and the
> other foot on the North
> Americian plate, ie astraddle of the San Andreas
> fault line. In back of him
> was a small vertical clift of maybe 10 feet and you
> could plainly see the
> shift (approx 15 inches) in the layers of sediment.
> Now I've got to thinking (some say this is my
> problem--Thinking) that these
> meteorites have a tremendous terestial age. If the
> earth is bombarded by
> these meteorites throughout the aeons, then there
> should be a record, ie
> evidence in the form of buried craters (see the
> Odessa,Tx crater) -- Approx
> 100 to 110 feet deep that has been filled in till
> it is only 25 to 30 feet
> deep now due to wind blown sand (mostly). I've got a
> pamplet of "Occasional
> Papers of the Strecker Museum" from Baylor
> University showing a neat cross
> section of the Odessa Crater.
> How much investigation into the cross section
> structure of the sediment
> layers, looking for evidence of craters has been
> done? Has there ever been
> an accidential discovery of a buried crater in a
> clift side. Lots of these
> erroded mesa exist out west. Maybe evidence is
> visable there.
> Surely Valeria is not the only animal killer out
> there.
> Maybe another animal drilled by a passing meteorite
> with the coresponding
> meteorite near the body. Maybe there's no body but
> the meteorite is still
> there buried in the deeper layers of sediment. Maybe
> tektites are the only
> surviving evidence.
> In a nutshell, has there ever been a meteorite found
> at a depth of sediment
> that is plainly very old?
> Pete
>
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