Dear Friends, While looking around, a friend found something, which looked like an impact crater at:
Latidue 52.847117N, Longitude 1.730608W After a quick search, I found that it although it was indeed a crater, it was not the result of a meteorite impact and had more earthly origins. It was the site of the Fauld explosion, which occurred when in 1944, some 3,670 tons of RAF bombs exploded being stored underground exploded. A paper about thsi event is: Waltham, T., 2001, The Fauld Crater. Mercian Geologist. vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 123-125. A 536Kb PDF file can be obtained from: http://www.emgs.org.uk/files/local_geology/15(2)_fauld_crater.pdf The Fauld Explosion web page is at: http://www.carolyn.topmum.net/tutbury/fauld/fauldcrater.htm and The world's largest-ever explosion (almost) - in Staffordshire 60 years ago at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/features/history/2004/fauld.shtml Yours, Paul H. ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
