Renne, R. P., H. P. Schwarcz, M. R. Kleindienst, G. R. Osinski, and J. J. Donovan, 2010, Age of the Dakhleh impact event and implications for Middle Stone Age archeology in the Western Desert of Egypt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. vol. 29, No. 1-4, pp. 201–206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.014 In part the abstract reads: "Dakhleh Glass comprises a suite of chemically distinctive and heterogeneous glassy rocks that occur over an area of ca. 400 km2 in and around the Dakhleh Oasis in central western Egypt." and "The age of the impact event is determined from a compositionally filtered subset of the data that yield an isochron age of 145 ± 19 ka." Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt http://epsc.wustl.edu/~kieniewicz/dakhleh_oasis.htm http://www.dakhleh.com/publications.htm Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
