Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite in...

2005-05-23 Thread MexicoDoug
Sterling Ron commented:: If a meteorite created the structure, it hit some 300 million years ago when mid-Missouri was part of an ancient Jurassic Age sea. The strike obliterated plant-like crinoids, Koeberl said. Ancient Jurassic Sea 300 million years ago? ??? I don't think

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite in...

2005-05-23 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, Doug, The article Ron cited was a newspaper article. It contains what the reporter understood and could remember and we all, sadly, know how that goes! It's only a little muddled, but I was impressed that the news in Springfield, Missouri, did so relatively well. You'd have to

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite i...

2005-05-23 Thread MexicoDoug
Sterling W. kindly recounted: This course of study climaxed at the age of six when I took a small sledge hammer and masonry chisel to the steps and removed a large and perfect Dinorthis from them, much to the displeasure of Hola Sterling, You remind me of the Indiana dealer (a 9-year old

Re: [meteorite-list] Scientists Excited About Potential Impact CraterSite in Missouri

2005-05-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The Weaubleau crater is part of a suspected crater chain. Eight circular depressions (3-17 km wide) distributed along a 700 km line across Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois may comprise part of a crater chain (M.R. Rampino and T. Volk (1996) Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, p. 49.) Two of the