[meteorite-list] China's first confirmed crater stirs debate (Xiuyan Impact Crater)

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:13:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <408189.46477.qm_at_web113607.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Here's the location on Google Maps

http://tinyurl.com/6cmlm2r

For some reason I can't get it to center on the crater, so zoom out a bit. The green arrow is centered on the crater not the red one.

If you look at the location in Panoramio or in Google Earth there are some photos of the crater.

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Fri, 1/21/11, Paul H. <oxytropidoceras at cox.net> wrote:
> From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] China's first confirmed crater stirs debate (Xiuyan Impact Crater)
> To: "meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 1:09 PM
> China's first confirmed crater stirs
> debate
> by Zhou Jing, China.org.cn, January 20, 2011
> http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-01/20/content_21784587.htm
> 
> Some papers about this crater are:
> 
> Chen, M., 2008, Impact-derived features of the 
> Xiuyan meteorite crater. Chinese Science Bulletin.
> vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 392-395.
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/9rh444147628h75w/
> 
> PDF file at 
> http://www.scichina.com:8080/kxtbe/fileup/PDF/08ky0392.pdf
> and http://www.scichina.com:8080/kxtbe/EN/abstract/abstract317414.shtml
> 
> Chen, M., W. Xiaoa and X. Xiea, 2010, Coesite 
> and quartz characteristic of crystallization 
> from shock-produced silica melt in the Xiuyan 
> crater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
> vol. 297, no. 1-2, pp. 306-314.
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.032
> 
> Chen, M., W. Xiao, X. Xie, D. Tan and Y. Cao, 2010,
> Xiuyan crater, China: Impact origin confirmed.
> Chinese Science Bulletin. vol. 55, no. 17, pp. 1777-1781.
> http://www.springerlink.com/content/e113713t58060086/
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Paul H.
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