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

From: Norbert Classen <riffraff_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 16:46:13 +0200
Message-ID: <000c01c8adf5$9ba231f0$2002a8c0_at_lunatic>

Hi Pete, and All,

Check out the following website on Fossil Meteorites (best viewed with
Internet Explorer - it doesn't display correctly with Firefox for some
reason):

http://epsc.wustl.edu/~visscher/research/fossil_files/frame.htm

Best,
Norbert


> --- 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
Received on Sun 04 May 2008 10:46:13 AM PDT