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

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 08:23:35 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <933793.35328.qm_at_web33105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I just remmember reading about it and seeing the
photos of individual meteorites that had been cut in
the matrix, still full of chondrules.
Anyone know where I can get my hands on a slab?
Michael Farmer


--- G?ran Axelsson <axelsson at acc.umu.se> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> I never thought that I had to correct you in the
> field of meteoritics.
>
> :-)
>
> Sweden does have a couple of old coal mines but the
> fossile meteorites
> is found in lime stone quarries.
>
> I have also been shown in the roof of a mine (south
> of Kumla) of a
> structure that was claimed to be an impact crater
> (or impact pit) but I
> haven't been able to find anything published about
> it.
> That was before I got hooked on meteorites so I
> didn't know what to look
> for or ask. The age of that quartzite strata should
> have been in the
> range of 400-600 million years.
>
> /G?ran
>
> Michael Farmer wrote:
> > 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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