In Re-2: [meteorite-list] Kentucky? Bernard wrote: >>Lots of limestone from a geology standpoint... >>also my good friend John Curchin gave me a >>wonderful shattercone that came from Kentucky. >>I forget what the name of the impact structure >>that is there Middlesburg or Middlesboro maybe?
>Yes, it's Middlesboro - it has a diameter of >about 6 km with a central uplift and shattercones. Some references are: Dietz, Robert S., 1966, Shatter cones at the Middlesboro structure, Kentucky. Meteoritics. vol. 3, no. 1, pp.27-29. Donofrio, Richard R., 1998, North American Impact Structures Hold Giant Oil Fields. Oil and Gas Journal. vol. 96, no. 19, pp. 69-70, 72, 74-76, 78, 80, 83 (May 11, 1998) http://www.edge.ou.edu/news/Donofrio.PDF Englund, Kenneth J., and Roen, K.J., 1963, Origin of the Middlesboro Basin, Kentucky, U. S. Professional Paper no. 450E, pp.E20-E22, United States Geological survey, Reston, Virgina. Englund, K. J., 1964 Geology of the Middlesboro south quadrangle, Tennessee-Kentucky-Virginia. Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-301, scale 1:24,000, United States Geological survey, Reston, Virgina. Englund, K. J., Roen, K. J., and DeLaney, A.O., 1964 Geology of the Middlesboro north quadrangle, Kentucky. Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-300, scale 1:24,000, United States Geological survey, Reston, Virgina. Greb, Stephen F., 1998, Impact of an astrobleme on coal mining in part of the Eastern Kentucky coal field. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. vol. 82, no. 9, p. 1767. http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/coal/greb2.html#d http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/coal/eastanal.htm Grieve, R. A. F., 1982, The record of impact on Earth: Implications for a major Cretaceous/Tertiary impact event. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 190, pp. 25-37. Milam, Keith A., 1998, Mapping, modeling and geomorphology of the Middlesboro impact structure; Middlesboro, Kentucky. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 30, no. 4, p. 51 Milam, Keith A., 2002, Shocked Conglomerates from the Middlesboro Impact Structure. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 34, no. ?, p. ?? (North-Central Section (36th) and Southeastern Section (51st), GSA Joint Annual Meeting (April 3-5, 2002) http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NC/finalprogram/abstract_32216.htm Milam, Keith A., and Kuehn, Kenneth, W., 1999, Middlesboro, KY; further evidence for an impact origin. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. vol. 31, no. 7, p. 124 Steinemann, Christopher F., 1980, A gravity study of the Middlesboro cryptoexplosive structure. Unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Kentucky : Lexington, KY,58 pp. Web Pages 1.Earth Impact database - Middlesboro http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/middlesboro.htm 2. Middlesboro http://thunder.pa.uky.edu/Ast191/impact.htm 3. List of 198 impact structures of the World http://www.netppl.fi/~jarmom/geo/imp/impacts.htm Other possible, but unproved, impact structures are the Jeptha Knob and Versailles structures and the subsurface Muldraugh dome. 1. The Impact Craters of Kentucky http://thunder.pa.uky.edu/Ast191/impact.htm 2. Structural Geology by Robert C. McDowell form U.S. Geological survey Professional Paper 1151-H at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1151h/structure.html Yours, Paul Baton Rouge, LA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
